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Chessboard (Posted on 2004-01-14)

Three different squares are chosen randomly on a chessboard.

What is the probability that they lie in the same diagonal?

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ravi Raja

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Chessboard

| Comment 11 of 20 |

The total number of occurences is
64C3
and the desirable outcomes is
16C3

So the required probability is

16
C
3
---------------
64
C
3
=0.037878.....

Posted by Purna on 2004-01-24 06:32:37

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