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Chapter 4: Q14 (page 174)

In Exercises 5鈥�36, express all probabilities as fractions.

Electricity When testing for current in a cable with five color-coded wires, the author used a meter to test two wires at a time. How many different tests are required for every possible pairing of two wires?

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The number of tests required for testing every possible pair is equal to 10.

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01

Given information

There are five color-coded wires. Two wires are paired each time to test the current in a cable.

02

Define combination

The combination is used to determine the total ways of choosing r items out of the nitemswithout replacing the order of the items and considering the order of the items.

Mathematically, the formula of combination is as follows:

Crn=n!n-r!r!

03

Calculation

The number of different wires is five.

The total number of ways in which a pair of wires from five different wires can be selected without replacement is computed as shown below:

5C2=5!5-2!2!=10

Therefore, the number of tests required for each pair is equal to 10.

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