All Years
1988 TYS
Question 6
Question
In a sales campaign, a petrol company gives each motorist who buys their petrol a card with a picture of a film star on it. There are ten different pictures, one each of ten different film stars, and any motorist who collects a complete set of all ten pictures gets a free gift. On any occasion when a motorist buys petrol, the card received is equally likely to carry any one of the ten pictures in the set.
- the first four cards of the motorist receives all carry different pictures.
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- the first four cards received result in the motorist having exactly three different pictures.
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- Two of the ten film stars in the set are $X$ and $Y$. Find the probability that the first four cards received result in the motorist having a picture of $X$ or $Y$ (or both).
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[Note: a picture here is interpreted as at least one picture and not exactly one picture] - At a certain stage the motorist has collected nine of the ten pictures. Find the least value of $n$ such that probability that he needs at most $n$ more cards to complete the set is greater than $0.99$.
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