A legendary question from the toughest exam

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This legendary question from India's JEE Advanced test is so hard that most people would not even attempt it. Only 78 out of 161,319 were able to correctly solve it.
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  • @ai314159
    @ai31415927 күн бұрын

    What makes this question hard is not the math-it's the incredibly confusing wording.

  • @robertveith6383

    @robertveith6383

    27 күн бұрын

    * confusing Use the adjective.

  • @lefthanded3512

    @lefthanded3512

    27 күн бұрын

    Haha, exactly. The problem itself is actually extremely easy if you think about it logically and methodically. The way it’s worded makes it sound like a question only someone with an IQ of 180+ can answer correctly.

  • @pierreabbat6157

    @pierreabbat6157

    27 күн бұрын

    The way I understood the question on reading it, I got the answer 6*57+15*42+20*22+15*7+6*1=1523, where 57 is 15+20+15+6+1.

  • @ai314159

    @ai314159

    27 күн бұрын

    @@pierreabbat6157 same here

  • @ayushrudra8600

    @ayushrudra8600

    27 күн бұрын

    yeah i solved it pretty easily with contest math background - it was probably just a combination of probability not really being taught in school and the wording

  • @user-jn4sw3iw4h
    @user-jn4sw3iw4h26 күн бұрын

    With on average 3 minutes per question, through a 6 hour gauntlet the correct answer to this question is "skip, lets see if there will be time left to loop back around"

  • @mj9765

    @mj9765

    16 күн бұрын

    Most other questions are the same way. The students who answer these have a muscle memory of solving such questions for years, sometimes, unfortunately for a decade! Yes, students start at 8 or 9 yrs of age to prepare for this exam which they take at 18! Very sad!

  • @user-jn4sw3iw4h

    @user-jn4sw3iw4h

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@mj9765 even with "target audience, is a lot more fluent with these terms, as they prepare for this exam for nearly a decade" doesn't change the argument. In a "3 minutes per question, (2x) 3 hour gauntlet"-exam, tactically picking which to skip, is undeniably part of what's being tested. For such an established institution, I'm going to assume, this is intentional. Given the "less than 0.05% succes-rate, even among the target audience of the exam" it is statistically like, this was one, you were better off skipping. My statement was independent, of the specific contents of the question.

  • @kaushikmohanta8526

    @kaushikmohanta8526

    12 күн бұрын

    You are right. It's a game of rejecting these questions where the answer would take up at least 6 min of your time Rather solve the easier ones first. And if you feel like you can score this one, then only go ahead. For a tough exam like this, the cutoff usually goes low personally, I'm skipping this one!

  • @lamelauncelot1385

    @lamelauncelot1385

    6 сағат бұрын

    Don't make stuff up​@@mj9765

  • @StatsJedi
    @StatsJedi27 күн бұрын

    At the pause, the definition of (A,B) is totally unclear. No wonder so few got it correct.

  • @chuckywang

    @chuckywang

    27 күн бұрын

    Exactly! I thought A and B were just two independent subsets of S.

  • @sonure6127

    @sonure6127

    27 күн бұрын

    What is so unclear in the definition?

  • @TomNimitz

    @TomNimitz

    27 күн бұрын

    @@sonure6127 The concept of "independent" in the solution is flawed in the solution, where the poster has applied some twisted logic that actually applies a dependency between A and B that excludes certain otherwise-independent (A, B) combinations separate from the explicit 1

  • @sonure6127

    @sonure6127

    27 күн бұрын

    @@TomNimitz Events X and Y are independent means that P(X intersection Y) =P(X)P(Y) . I hope u get it now.

  • @sakumar

    @sakumar

    26 күн бұрын

    An event is defined as a subset of the sample space. So, for example, you could say, "If I toss the dice, what is the chances it comes out

  • @AdrianColley
    @AdrianColley27 күн бұрын

    I would have skipped this question because its phenomenal vagueness is not worth spending exam time on decoding. A must be a set, because |A| is defined only on sets, but it's also an "event associated with S"; which can't indicate the natural meaning of an element of S, because A's cardinality is greater than 1. Whoever wrote that question should have had their work reviewed before it went to print.

  • @chanlaoshi8634

    @chanlaoshi8634

    15 күн бұрын

    An event is defined to be a set in probability theory, so the formulation is ok for people who know this term. But when writing a text I would not expect every student to know that and be a bit more clear.

  • @harshuldesai8901

    @harshuldesai8901

    14 күн бұрын

    Well the kids here (India) learn that an event is a subset of the sample space. I honestly didn't understand what the confusion was about but maybe I'm starting to realize the definitions taught aren't the same everywhere. But I do believe this question made sense for most test takers.

  • @AdrianColley

    @AdrianColley

    14 күн бұрын

    @@harshuldesai8901 I think you've nailed it here. I was taught probability theory at both second and third level in Ireland, and I never heard that term "event" used with that meaning.

  • @anibeto7

    @anibeto7

    5 күн бұрын

    ​@@AdrianColley Definition of an "event" is an outcome or a set of outcomes from a given experiment.

  • @go_gazelle

    @go_gazelle

    4 күн бұрын

    My issue is with independence vs dependence. I interpreted "independent" to mean the probability of B does not depend on A (and vice versa), meaning I'm just picking two sets at random. 63 possible sets for A and the same 63 for B. (Null set excluded). 63² total possibilities for (A, B). (6 + 15 + 20 + 15 + 6 + 1 = 63) or (2⁶ - 1 = 63) 923 (A, B) for which |A| = |B|. (6² + 15² + 20² + 15² + 6² + 1² = 923) 63² - 923 (A, B) for which |A| ≠ |B|. (63² - 923) / 2 (A, B) for which |B| Put that in a calculator: 1523 (A, B). As well, this seems reasonable to be completed in 3 minutes.

  • @pablocopello3592
    @pablocopello359227 күн бұрын

    A mathematical problem begins when it is clear what is being asked. Before that, we have a linguistic/notation/convention problem like in this case. Does JEE tests evaluate the knowledge/capacity in it's target topics, or evaluate the capacity to guess what it's questions pretend to ask?

  • @astrogersunited5389

    @astrogersunited5389

    26 күн бұрын

    the competition is high hence such questions are asked

  • @ParitoshTripathiOfficial

    @ParitoshTripathiOfficial

    25 күн бұрын

    The director of exam board himself said we conduct this exam to eliminate students and not select them. They have to remove students by hook or crook. So, they resort to such techniques by making question ambiguous, incorrect, having multiple correct answers. That is why JEE have the reputation of toughest because no one can guess all questions correctly.

  • @ParitoshTripathiOfficial

    @ParitoshTripathiOfficial

    25 күн бұрын

    The irony!

  • @Prabhu108.

    @Prabhu108.

    21 күн бұрын

    Very interesting point. Even a smart person would be troubled if they aren't familiar with the wording.

  • @chair7728

    @chair7728

    13 күн бұрын

    Obviously math is taught differently around the world but when I read the question I found the wording to be very mathematically exact and completely unambiguous, with the terms having a strict mathematical definition

  • @sergniko
    @sergniko27 күн бұрын

    I paused video to understand the question

  • @strangelyrepulsive77

    @strangelyrepulsive77

    27 күн бұрын

    i paused to video to wonder at that i will never even understand it

  • @arthatiara4091
    @arthatiara409127 күн бұрын

    what im thinking when presh said there were only 78 students, "did they have enough time to finish other questions???"😂

  • @OrbitTheSun

    @OrbitTheSun

    25 күн бұрын

    Maybe they just got lucky with their guess. Can someone calculate the probability?

  • @howareyou4400

    @howareyou4400

    24 күн бұрын

    This took me about 2 and half minutes to solve. But I took probability class in undergraduate study. I wouldn't be able to understand the concept of "event" there back in high school as it wasn't taught.

  • @afzal_amanullah

    @afzal_amanullah

    22 күн бұрын

    ​@@howareyou4400What do you mean by you wouldn't understand the concept of Event in your highschool Isn't probability taught in highschool?

  • @howareyou4400

    @howareyou4400

    22 күн бұрын

    @@afzal_amanullahBasic probability, yes. But the concept of "event", the one that utilizes the set theory isn't taught until university. You can see that many people in the comment section complain that the "problem description isn't clear". That's likely because their probability class didn't taught the "event" as in the set theory.

  • @afzal_amanullah

    @afzal_amanullah

    20 күн бұрын

    @@howareyou4400 what country are you in?

  • @aliso-pv7ll
    @aliso-pv7ll27 күн бұрын

    “Oh is a letter, zero is a number!”

  • @vincent412l7

    @vincent412l7

    27 күн бұрын

    Nought is a number

  • @lefthanded3512
    @lefthanded351227 күн бұрын

    You find the true smart folks by asking hard questions in an easy format rather than by asking easy questions in a hard format 👍🏻

  • @Kounomura

    @Kounomura

    26 күн бұрын

    I don't quite agree with that. Because it is also a valuable skill that someone can peel out of the confusion what it is actually about.

  • @lefthanded3512

    @lefthanded3512

    26 күн бұрын

    @@Kounomura I can agree with that to an extent. It depends what you’re looking for, a linguist, a problem solver, or both.

  • @prometheus7387

    @prometheus7387

    25 күн бұрын

    ​@@Kounomura that's for the English exam to test IMO, not the Math exam

  • @thechessplayer8328

    @thechessplayer8328

    25 күн бұрын

    It seems to me that in science, one tries to explain something that no one understands in a way that everyone can understand, and in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

  • @fun-damentals6354
    @fun-damentals635426 күн бұрын

    i feel like the problem itself is actually rather simple. its the fancy mathematical terms and confusing wording that makes it difficult to understand

  • @asdfasdfasdf1218

    @asdfasdfasdf1218

    21 күн бұрын

    The terms themselves aren't exactly fancy, it's just that they are the strict and formal definitions that nobody uses in everyday speech.

  • @GaurangAgrawal2
    @GaurangAgrawal227 күн бұрын

    I started watching your channel in 8th grade and I was always amazed by how you solved JEE Problems. Especially the ones involving logarithms. Ofc, I wasn't able to understand anything at that time, but now that I am preparing for JEE, It's time to correctly solve this problem in order to check my preparation 😅. Loved these years with you and your way teaching mathematical concepts. Looking for more in the future Edit: Nah This question was from my least favourite topic Permutations, Combination and Probability... I am currently re-studying those topics to understand them better.

  • @deadlock7946

    @deadlock7946

    27 күн бұрын

    I wish you the best! Never stop solving and enjoy the process❤

  • @egaLwie.

    @egaLwie.

    27 күн бұрын

    wish you best of luck

  • @makokx7063
    @makokx706327 күн бұрын

    Imagine getting through that whole thing then messing up the final addition. lol

  • @HikingEngineer
    @HikingEngineer27 күн бұрын

    yeah this question is bogus -- and i have a math degree -- i'm assuming everyone put 15 as the answer?

  • @bobh6728

    @bobh6728

    26 күн бұрын

    I vaguely remember this from Probability and Statistics class years ago. For example, using dice the sample space S is {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Then you roll the dice (die) once and get a result. That is the experiment. They you can enumerated all the events. An event would be like rolling an even number (2,4,6), or rolling a prime (2,3,5,7). All the events would be the power set of S. Null set (1), (2), (3), etc (1,2), (1,3), etc until you have all subsets. So the wording is standard for sample space, events, independent events, and cardinality.

  • @robertlezama1958

    @robertlezama1958

    24 күн бұрын

    Agreed. How does an event become a set of elements? The dice reference in the explanation seems to establish that the displayed value is independent of the other 5 possible outcomes, without using probability. Ordered pairs of events where the value of 'A' must always be > that of 'B' led me to 15 for the answer. Or maybe I should be back in math classes. 😢

  • @bobh6728

    @bobh6728

    24 күн бұрын

    @@robertlezama1958 The events are sets of elements. Use rolling a die. There are six possible outcomes for the experiment. But there are 64 events that can be described which are the power set. For example, one event would be throwing an odd number {1,3,5,7} or an even number {2,4,6,8} or less than 4 {1,2,3}. There are 64 different events, which are all the subsets of {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Many are difficult to describe is words like {1,3,4,6}, but it is an event.

  • @asdfasdfasdf1218

    @asdfasdfasdf1218

    21 күн бұрын

    @@robertlezama1958 An event is *defined* as any subset of the sample space. If you don't know the formal definitions of all the terms, then obviously the problem is hard.

  • @anshumanagrawal346

    @anshumanagrawal346

    3 күн бұрын

    How do you have a math degree and not get this? I can understand for a highschooler to not get it for once; but if you have ever formally studied any probability, you should have no problem with the idea the Events ARE Sets, and that's what probability is assigned to, and then just the definition of independent events.

  • @ravirajshelar250
    @ravirajshelar25027 күн бұрын

    The 2019 paper is always going to be on the top 5 hardest papers in JEE Advanced History😂. Also in jee advanced papers students generally leave questions related to permuations and combinations a lot as compared to other topics.

  • @muthiah9705
    @muthiah970527 күн бұрын

    I am an Indian student and preparing for this one . Wish good luck for me.

  • @brahmbandyopadhyay

    @brahmbandyopadhyay

    26 күн бұрын

    Good luck ~ from WB

  • @melanieelayaperuma3110

    @melanieelayaperuma3110

    24 күн бұрын

    Google luck, tell us your results!

  • @lefthanded3512

    @lefthanded3512

    23 күн бұрын

    Good luck man 💯 you got this

  • @draconic104

    @draconic104

    21 күн бұрын

    @@brahmbandyopadhyay me too........i am a future aspirant

  • @KrishnaThakur-nf4rt

    @KrishnaThakur-nf4rt

    12 күн бұрын

    How was ur advanced?

  • @Kounomura
    @Kounomura26 күн бұрын

    The strict mathematical language can be so abstract, even in the formulation of the simplest problems, that it directly scares off those who want to get to know the beauties of mathematics. Above all, in education, much more care should be taken to make every mathematical problem as close as possible to an imaginable situation. Once the listeners have understood the essence of the matter through this, it is then possible to continue with the more abstract and generalized version. In the case of the above test, it is not possible to know exactly who they wanted to select in the first place. Those who switch quickly or who have a large overview, even if it is not that deep.

  • @dhananjaysawant4646
    @dhananjaysawant464627 күн бұрын

    1:14 for a second I thought that was the math problem

  • @GWF_YOU

    @GWF_YOU

    26 күн бұрын

    🤦

  • @yippee8570

    @yippee8570

    26 күн бұрын

    It'd be a nice, easy question if it were!

  • @davidmagdalena8149

    @davidmagdalena8149

    24 күн бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Vishal00567

    @Vishal00567

    18 күн бұрын

    I also thought same.

  • @dannyannet154

    @dannyannet154

    3 күн бұрын

    😭🤣🤣🤣

  • @henryboyter3670
    @henryboyter367027 күн бұрын

    It makes you wonder if the problem had appeared elsewhere and those 78 had read the answer and remembered.

  • @HikingEngineer

    @HikingEngineer

    27 күн бұрын

    agreed

  • @BuddyReiner

    @BuddyReiner

    27 күн бұрын

    Nah, each year JEE advanced questions are made totally new, with rare exceptions they give modified and simplified IMO problems sometimes.

  • @anshumanagrawal346

    @anshumanagrawal346

    3 күн бұрын

    I don't know why you say that. I saw this probably for the first time when I saw the video and was able to solve it in a couple of minutes. It's been 2 years since I graduated high school, so I don't exactly remember it fresh, if you know the definitions and are comfortable with counting (combinatorics/PnC) then there really isn't much.

  • @henryboyter3670

    @henryboyter3670

    3 күн бұрын

    @@anshumanagrawal346 Good for you.

  • @user-fq7ft1tz9k

    @user-fq7ft1tz9k

    2 күн бұрын

    ​@@anshumanagrawal346👏👏👏

  • @JEE-oq1me
    @JEE-oq1me26 күн бұрын

    thank you, this is just what i wanted to see 12 days before giving JEE Advanced myself....

  • @Kshitij.with.nature-channel

    @Kshitij.with.nature-channel

    26 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @hamburgeryumyum7491

    @hamburgeryumyum7491

    11 күн бұрын

    How did it go?

  • @JEEsiast

    @JEEsiast

    10 күн бұрын

    Bro what was ur mains percentile???? Btw how did ur advanced go? mine was good😌

  • @MoonGlow22
    @MoonGlow2227 күн бұрын

    I tried to solve in a diffrent way and find the answer 1523 I guess I didnt considered that they have to be independent and did the 10:30 calculation for 6 times İf |A|= 2 3 4 5 6 Then --------------- |B|=1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 1 Then we calculate Combinations for each one which leads to 15 20 15 6 1 ------------------------ 6 15 20 15 6 6 15 20 15 6 15 20 6 15 6 İf we sum all possible B values for each column we get 6 21 41 56 62 Then 15x6+20x21+15x41+6x56+1x62 = 1523

  • @MoonGlow22

    @MoonGlow22

    27 күн бұрын

    Also its 23:21 now and I have a electromagnetic wave theory exam tomorrow 😅

  • @SLuce222

    @SLuce222

    26 күн бұрын

    I got the same answer (1523) different method.

  • @samarthpawar1504

    @samarthpawar1504

    25 күн бұрын

    i got the same answer...and i directly skipped to the end to see if i am right and then comes disappointment😮‍💨

  • @leogreaves3251
    @leogreaves325127 күн бұрын

    It’s always a treat when I get an upload notification from you.

  • @tan_k
    @tan_k24 күн бұрын

    I think the majority of people who solved this question failed the test.

  • @prabaln4752

    @prabaln4752

    15 күн бұрын

    😂😂lol

  • @pranshukumar7934

    @pranshukumar7934

    15 күн бұрын

    Or Topped the test.

  • @prabaln4752

    @prabaln4752

    15 күн бұрын

    @@pranshukumar7934 that's not the case

  • @armankumarsingh3566

    @armankumarsingh3566

    7 күн бұрын

    Yes😅

  • @aayushprasad7318
    @aayushprasad731820 күн бұрын

    Our Jee advanced 2024 exam after 7 days. Wishing all the best to all jee adv 2024 aspirant !

  • @anishgain2563
    @anishgain256327 күн бұрын

    From the title i knew it was gonna be a question from jee advanced

  • @chiragmidha2878
    @chiragmidha287810 күн бұрын

    I am glad that the Jee exam is recognized as one of the touhgest exams in the world. I gave the test in 2017 and because of that I am still able to follow these math videos, even though I haven't studied math in a while now. Also regarding the percentage of people who got the correct answer. Population of India is huge so a big majority of test takers don't really prepare to that level, however to even give the Jee advance test, you have to get more than certain rank in Jee Mains (an easier version test, (you only have 2 minutes per question in this exam but the questions are easier)). The point that I am trying to make is people who even attempt the Jee advance test have already gotten really scores in the main test.

  • @megabot49
    @megabot4927 күн бұрын

    Thats legendary man

  • @Gyan-fx9zx
    @Gyan-fx9zx26 күн бұрын

    Thanks for making this video on my suggestion.

  • @OceanusHelios
    @OceanusHelios26 күн бұрын

    This problem is difficult not because of the arithmatic involved. This problem is difficult because it is requires knowledge and familiarity of a subset of mathematics that is rarely called into use, and so the level of familiarity with it will be very low. Performance will therefore be based more on how exhaustive a person's education in math is with regards to the landscape of maths overall, than the counter-intuitiveness or complexity of the problem. In other words, if a person was used to solving this type of problem and answering these kinds of questions, it would have been a no-brainer. Just as with the rest of Chemistry and Physics included in this test, it will be a test of the thoroughness of the person's education and a familiarity with the material. It isn't a test of intelligence or anything of the like but a test of skill and how comprehensive the person's knowledge is. In giving a test with these kinds of problems, they could extend the time of the exam to three weeks and would students would still have roughly the same scores. If the exam is meant to weed out and select for the "best of the best" then it is a good test to find your super-nerd in the bunch of test takers.

  • @WRSomsky
    @WRSomsky27 күн бұрын

    So where do you get that "A is an event associated with a sample space S" means that A is a *set* of elements drawn from S? I have never heard this before. Without some prior indication of this interpretation, I would take it to mean that A is *an* element drawn from S.

  • @superman00001

    @superman00001

    26 күн бұрын

    I agree. I thought hard about the meaning of this question and have not yet looked at the solution, but it seems to me there is no justification for interpreting “an event” to mean “the choice of a subset of elements” as opposed to “the choice of an element.” If we use the latter definition, the answer to the question is obviously zero. But why not arbitrarily interpret “an event” as meaning something else - such as a selection of three elements whose product is more than 6, for example? The question wording is unnecessarily and infuriatingly vague.

  • @sakumar

    @sakumar

    23 күн бұрын

    In probability theory the definition of an event is "subset of the sample space." You could define an event as, say, "the number comes up even." It's the same as saying "the number comes up {2, 4, or 6}. So, event "odd" is {1, 3, 5}. Event "less than 5" is {1, 2, 3, 4}. Event "not 6" is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and event "prime" is {2, 3, 5} and so on. In this way, any subset of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} is an "event."

  • @asdfasdfasdf1218

    @asdfasdfasdf1218

    21 күн бұрын

    That's just definition of "event" in probability. Probability theory uses words in ways that are very different from ordinary usage.

  • @eliasriedelgarding9949

    @eliasriedelgarding9949

    16 күн бұрын

    "Sample space" is the set of possible "worlds" that might come to be. An "event" is something that in each world either happens or not. So you can define it as the set of worlds in which it does happen (i.e. a Boolean function on sample space).

  • @anshumanagrawal346

    @anshumanagrawal346

    3 күн бұрын

    That's what an event from a sample space means.

  • @cpsof
    @cpsof26 күн бұрын

    Sample space means a set of possible outcomes where the outcomes are mutually exclusive, so the cardinality of A and B is always 1, which means that the number of ordered pairs (A, B) where |B| < |A|, is zero.

  • @Vienticus
    @Vienticus27 күн бұрын

    I got immediately thrown off by the extra comma at the end.

  • @navghtivs
    @navghtivs27 күн бұрын

    I think the hard part is to understand the wording, once that's understood, I'd just write a python program to enumerate all combinations and get the answer in no time.

  • @asdfasdfasdf1218

    @asdfasdfasdf1218

    21 күн бұрын

    Probability theory has a knack for formally defining many terms that are different from ordinary usage in English.

  • @anshumanagrawal346

    @anshumanagrawal346

    3 күн бұрын

    Lol

  • @verkuilb
    @verkuilb27 күн бұрын

    @9:35, you say that with |A| = 3, the only way to get a multiple of 6 is if |B| = 2. Not true-you can also get a multiple of 6 if |B| = 4. I realize that this would violate the rule that |B| < |A|, which I suspect is why you skipped it, but I believe you forgot to state that.

  • @mk2k685

    @mk2k685

    27 күн бұрын

    paused right there and skimmed the comments, thanks for clarifying this

  • @Player_is_I
    @Player_is_I15 күн бұрын

    Hats off to "THE 78"

  • @bhanuchhabra7634
    @bhanuchhabra763427 күн бұрын

    Sometimes I am amazed at how easy it is to follow when you explain, but my mind goes blank if I am left with some of the problems. At times I feel writing a program would be faster for me to solve such problems 😅. BTW, i attempted JEE in 2007.

  • @musicmaker99
    @musicmaker9926 күн бұрын

    I don't understand the question, i don't understand the answer, and i don't understand the explanation. 422 what? How does this relate to dice-throwing?

  • @sundareshvenugopal6575
    @sundareshvenugopal657521 күн бұрын

    Assuming two events are independent iff the outcome of one does not affect or influence the outcome of the other, that means if any two events share the same outcome it cannot be that they are unrelated and independent. The question now becomes, in how many ways can 6 elements of a set be split into two subsets such that one set has more elements than the other, taking into account symmetry of the two sets ?

  • @Indian_Ravioli
    @Indian_Ravioli19 күн бұрын

    i somehow could keep up with your explanation. but why didn't we use the same method as 4&3 or 3&2 for the first case of 6&1..that 62 made sense but cant it be achieved by the same method we got 180 in the other 2 cases?

  • @marutanray
    @marutanray26 күн бұрын

    The word event is not defined in the question. Event of sampling from S? Event of what?

  • @thekraken4265
    @thekraken426519 күн бұрын

    Currently a university student and my issue with the computer science, math and statistics courses I’ve taken is that the person making the questions doesn’t clarify things because I assume they think it’s trivial when it’s not.

  • @ramunasstulga8264
    @ramunasstulga826427 күн бұрын

    Jee aspirants never fail overcomplicate high school problems 🙊

  • @akshatamritraj7399

    @akshatamritraj7399

    22 күн бұрын

    Jee is an exam for high school students though

  • @NaniNani-yy3sn
    @NaniNani-yy3sn17 күн бұрын

    This is exactly why i didn't choose to take JEE after 10th 🤯😂

  • @olerask2457
    @olerask245715 күн бұрын

    I guessed 1523. I read the sample space as rolling a dice, and the independent events as rolling TWO dice. I then had to calculate the sum of all products of binomial coefficients (6,a)*(6,b) under the condition 1

  • @NaHBrO733
    @NaHBrO73326 күн бұрын

    The hardest part in this question is figuring out what is A and B. If you have a fundamental understanding of mathematical "events", you would know it is a subset of sample space. Then you have to know what is independent, and not confusing it with mutually exclusive. "A,B are subsets of S={1,2,3,4,5,6}, 1

  • @NaHBrO733

    @NaHBrO733

    26 күн бұрын

    X is a random variable with sample space S. An event A is a subset of S. The probability of "A happening" is the probability of "the instance of X belongs in A"

  • @powergi3996
    @powergi399627 күн бұрын

    The best thing to do on a question like this in an exam is to skip it and use the time on other easier questions, especially if all the questions are worth the same. I'd be very curious to know how much time these 78 people used to answer this.

  • @deborahd.7281
    @deborahd.728126 күн бұрын

    It took about 13 minutes in the video to solve it and the students had on average 3 minutes to solve it.

  • @randomguy4803

    @randomguy4803

    24 күн бұрын

    😂

  • @hhhhhh0175
    @hhhhhh017527 күн бұрын

    this question doesn't make any sense unless S is supposed to be the power set of {1,...6}.. how is the "probability" of a subset equal to its number of elements divided by the number of possible elements? that's stated nowhere in the question

  • @deepvaghasiya3597

    @deepvaghasiya3597

    27 күн бұрын

    Are you a JEE student? Because they don't teach the proper definition of probability, they just say 'favourable outcomes / total outcomes' So, here's the actual definition of probability (discrete probability to be exact) probability is a function P : S -> [0,1], where S is the sample space, and for discrete sample spaces let P_w denote the elementary probability of element w in S, which is 1/|S| here as all are equally likely (probability of any single element), then probability of an event, which is a subset of the sample space, say A, is given by P(A) = Summation(P_w) for all w in A, hence, it will be |A|/|S|.

  • @kilimanjarocruz660

    @kilimanjarocruz660

    27 күн бұрын

    I totally agree. This is ill-defined in this way.

  • @jonathanlerner2797

    @jonathanlerner2797

    27 күн бұрын

    This is exactly what threw me off. The proper probability of any particular subset of S is (1/2)^|S|.

  • @hhhhhh0175

    @hhhhhh0175

    27 күн бұрын

    ​@@deepvaghasiya3597 i've never seen that definition before. is it supposed to correspond to normal probability for single element sets, and then "extend" it for any subset of the space? is this a well known thing in the context of the exam? and what does it have to do with probability? it seems like a pretty arbitrary definition to me, but i don't live in india, so maybe i'm missing something

  • @lefthanded3512

    @lefthanded3512

    27 күн бұрын

    They probably assume you will deduce that yourself. If there’s a logical way to do that, then I can see them testing you that way.

  • @_Dearex_
    @_Dearex_19 күн бұрын

    even after the explanation i have no idea what this questions wants from me

  • @anibeto7

    @anibeto7

    5 күн бұрын

    It wants your blood.

  • @Maths_3.1415
    @Maths_3.141526 күн бұрын

    It's a standard problem for aspirants of the AMC 12.

  • @kiranvootori8101
    @kiranvootori810126 күн бұрын

    The only reason some could answer correctly is because they don't try to answer every question they get. Part of the test strategy is to find the questions they are strong in and then solve them. Not necessary that they will end up with the correct answer though.

  • @bobtoad8601
    @bobtoad860113 күн бұрын

    The difficulty is how badly the question is written.

  • @sandyalbanese8393
    @sandyalbanese83934 күн бұрын

    I’m amazed that 78;people got this correct.

  • @abhinavtripathi692
    @abhinavtripathi69212 күн бұрын

    I appeared for JEE advanced 2024 yesterday!

  • @kilimanjarocruz660
    @kilimanjarocruz66027 күн бұрын

    What does a probability of a subset even mean in this case? This seems to me to be extremely poorly written/defined.

  • @HenrikoMagnifico
    @HenrikoMagnifico27 күн бұрын

    Ok how the heck can you do this in 3 minutes

  • @sparky2141

    @sparky2141

    26 күн бұрын

    That's the thing You don't :) You solve the other "easier" questions in less time and invest that saved time into this question Hence the exam also tests your time management skills

  • @kapilchhabria1727
    @kapilchhabria172719 күн бұрын

    I took the IITJEE in 1999 and had a rank of 5000, which is not high enough to secure admission into the program of my choice. When I took it was a 3 hour mathematics and 3 hour physics exam on day 1 and 3 hour chemistry exam on day 2. The exam had two sections, MCQ of which more than one choice could be correct and that was followed by long form questions. Additionally you are not allowed the use of a calculator nor are you permitted to use logarithmic tables. This meant deriving square root using the long form method.

  • @nedmerrill5705
    @nedmerrill570527 күн бұрын

    I need to go to school on this video. I bet it took you longer than 3 minutes on this question...next question, please!

  • @deepvaghasiya3597
    @deepvaghasiya359726 күн бұрын

    The question is not ill written, it makes sense and it is written perfectly fine. The thing is, the formal definitions are unclear to many people, and so to many students preparing for JEE. In India, students prepare for JEE from coaching institutes, and they usually don't teach formally, they just teach enough to crack the exam, that is they just give mechanical definitions and ideas just to solve normal questions, it is those few students who actually read good books and learn the formal definitions by themselves. Thats the reason this question wasn't solved by many students, whereas it was just the use of basic definitions thats it, the question was lengthy so tough to solve it in given time bound, but conceptually, it was not that tough, just the use of basic definitions.

  • @zecuse
    @zecuse27 күн бұрын

    The only thing I got right about this was recognizing it was a combinatorics question.

  • @SurprisedDivingBoard-vu9rz
    @SurprisedDivingBoard-vu9rz4 күн бұрын

    How many holes in the universe and how many burst and how many bubbles.

  • @Tiqerboy
    @Tiqerboy25 күн бұрын

    The answer approaches infinity. The problem with this problem is that it doesn't put any bounds on A and B. The set S suggests a six sided die.. I'm interpreting events A and B representing an arbitrary number of rolls of the die. I could roll the die as many times as I want and still have an event A that has as many elements as I want. Therefore if B has just ONE element (i.e. one roll of the die) then there can be an arbitrary number of ordered pairs (A,B) where A is as large as one likes.

  • @harshuldesai8901

    @harshuldesai8901

    14 күн бұрын

    If we assemble a deck of 52 playing cards with no jokers, and draw a single card from the deck, then the sample space is a 52-element set, as each card is a possible outcome. An event, however, is any subset of the sample space, including any singleton set (an elementary event), the empty set (an impossible event, with probability zero) and the sample space itself (a certain event, with probability one). Other events are proper subsets of the sample space that contain multiple elements. So, for example, potential events: "Red and black at the same time without being a joker" (0 elements), "The 5 of Hearts" (1 element), "A King" (4 elements), "A Face card" (12 elements), "A Spade" (13 elements), "A Face card or a red suit" (32 elements), "A card" (52 elements). This is from Wikipedia. Maybe you need to revise your definitions. An event is a subset of the sample space which is S here. Even after an arbitrary number of rolls, the results will always be a subset of S and so the cardinality of both A and B will always be less than or equal to 6.

  • @tmlen845
    @tmlen84527 күн бұрын

    does "independent event" have any intuitive meaning in this case?

  • @lettuce141

    @lettuce141

    27 күн бұрын

    It means that that the probability of A is equal to the probability of A given B. In probability theory notation this is P(A) = P(A|B). Intuitively, say you have some x, and probabilities P(A) that x is in A and P(B) that x is in B, then A and B are independent. Let's say I now tell you that x is in A, then this gives you new information that may or may not impact the probability that x is in B. A and B are independent if and only if the information that x is in A does not impact the probability that x is in B. The examples people usually use are coin flips and card draws. If you flip two coins, revealing the result of the first flip doesn't give any information on the second flip. But if you draw two cards from a deck and reveal that the first one is a queen of spades, then you now know that the second card must not be the queen of spades. This changes the probability for the second card from 1/52 for all values to 0 for the queen of spades and 1/51 for all remaining options. Because of this, the two coin flips are independent, and the two card draws are not independent.

  • @iankr
    @iankr27 күн бұрын

    Bleughhhhh. Stats. Didn't understand the wording of the question. Next question.

  • @michaeldegrave5905
    @michaeldegrave590525 күн бұрын

    The GRE being mentioned on the same list as some of these other tests is a laugh.

  • @MichaelRothwell1
    @MichaelRothwell126 күн бұрын

    It took me while to get what the question was about, and another while to figure out a reasonable strategy, but in the end my solution was almost identical to the one in the video. 1≤|B|0, |A∩B|>0. If |A|=2, then |B|=1, |A∩B|=1, so 6|A∩B|=6 and |A||B|=2, so 6|A∩B|=|A||B| is false. If |A|=3, then |B|≤2. 2|A∩B|=|B|, so 2 | |B|, so |B|=2, |A∩B|=1. 6C3=20 possibilities for A, 3C1×3C1=3×3=9 possibilities for B in each case, so 20×9=180 possibilities. If |A|=4, then |B|≤3. 3|A∩B|=2|B|, so 3 | |B|, so |B|=3, |A∩B|=2. 6C4=6C2=15 possibilities for A, 4C2×2C1=6×2=12 possibilities for B, so 15×12=180 possibilities. If |A|=5, then |B|≤4, |A∩B|≤4. 6|A∩B|=5|B|, impossible as 5 does not divide into 6 or |A∩B|. If |A|=6, then |A∩B|=|B| (automatically true anyway). 1 possibility for A, B can be any subset of A of size 1 to 5, i.e. 2⁶-2=64-2=62. So 180+180+62=422 possibilities altogether.

  • @nagasaiprajith2302
    @nagasaiprajith230227 күн бұрын

    Nice ❤

  • @danicule8671
    @danicule867126 күн бұрын

    The lenght of the test is the same for my final tests at UNiversity of Barcelona BSc Chemistry, so not surprise there

  • @varunsoni5278
    @varunsoni52789 күн бұрын

    Whoever is struggling to understand the question should revisit how an event is defined mathematically

  • @prakhar77495
    @prakhar774959 күн бұрын

    This is not a probability question. Just a PnC question. Some questions are actually poorly worded in jee adv but well when they talk about no of elements it kinda becomes clear that they just want us to make subsets of S. This converts to sum of product of things taken two at a time from C(6,i) where i is from 1-6 you can find it using ((summation x)² - (sum of x²))/2. I guess many people would have messed up the calculations. Many people won't have seen the pattern and would have started calculating the expression without using above formula and then left it bcuz of the heavy calculations.

  • @SViyaasJayavel
    @SViyaasJayavel24 күн бұрын

    Cardinal of A U wrote only 5 elements out of 6. Check it

  • @drelijahmikail3916
    @drelijahmikail391626 күн бұрын

    A \intersect B can be 0, e.g. B = {1}, A = {2,3,4,5,6}, which satisfy 1

  • @gameobee777

    @gameobee777

    3 күн бұрын

    But it doesn't satisfy the "independent event" condition. I.e pr(a intersection b) = pr(a)pr(b) Because if a intersection b=phi Then, Pr(a intersection b)= undefined 😊

  • @Szynkaa
    @Szynkaa11 күн бұрын

    it's easy and clearly worded (unlike some people in comments suggest), however 3 minutes for this question is incredibly harsh timer

  • @howareyou4400
    @howareyou440024 күн бұрын

    It's a normal question in probability class. But that's a undergraduate class...for physics and math major... So this is probably very hard for most high school students. Although I'm disappointed that there is no easier solution and we have to do the calculation with brutal force.

  • @OrbitTheSun
    @OrbitTheSun25 күн бұрын

    Please explain what an event is. If an event is {1,2}, is that two rolls of a die or what? This is pretty unclear to me.

  • @maxyellen4206

    @maxyellen4206

    25 күн бұрын

    Yeah. And the empty set would be like you haven’t even rolled the dice yet.

  • @Serg_144
    @Serg_1448 күн бұрын

    Another one "paradox" From the probability theory when you don't write precise enough the definitions... It depends on what the event is in this question There are 2 ways: 1) as in the video, event is {"we choose a subset of S"}. From that perspective the answer is correct. BUT there is another one which for me is more natural (Bernoulli scheme): 2) whe choose a subset from S, but SOME AMOUNT OF TIMES, not one, and also independently, e.g. we have A - subset, and B - subset, we have chosen TWO TIMES a subset from S, independently (!!) by definition. Now the event {A and B} from the 1) perspective is A intersect B. And from the 2) perspective is {"we choose A, and then we choose B"}. Here the answer is 1123 by the way, we simply don't get rid of some terms and summ them all, in comparison to the 1) P.S. kind of not nice to make the students solve the problem with 2 answers, when there is only one.... The problem isn't hard... Its just the fact that the authors didn't thought enough to make a normal task

  • @rickyjuwono8000
    @rickyjuwono800027 күн бұрын

    In my highschool i never learn cardinality

  • @jeeaspirant6846
    @jeeaspirant684625 күн бұрын

    The questions asked in JEE ADVANCED are not tough to solve. It’s just how you maintain your composure and stay calm while solving the problem. Once you decode the question and analyse calmly. It can be solved within few minutes.

  • @WillRennar
    @WillRennar26 күн бұрын

    Apologies for the smoke alarms going off, everyone. That's just my brain getting cooked here.

  • @alien_0_0_7
    @alien_0_0_725 күн бұрын

    watching this 11days before JEE Advanced

  • @Vishal00567

    @Vishal00567

    18 күн бұрын

    good luck bro.

  • @Chomta

    @Chomta

    16 күн бұрын

    3 days more to go

  • @ExcelInstructor
    @ExcelInstructor26 күн бұрын

    9:38 How? i mean if A = 3 and we need result being multiple of 6, we have 3 * 2 = 6, but alse 3 * 4 = 12 which is another multiple of 6.

  • @amanchandra2504

    @amanchandra2504

    18 күн бұрын

    B has to be less than A from the question which says that B is greater than 1 but less than A

  • @vcvartak7111
    @vcvartak711127 күн бұрын

    Went overhead

  • @pramodsingh7569
    @pramodsingh756927 күн бұрын

    Thanks

  • @jpopelish
    @jpopelish22 күн бұрын

    A much easier question: There is a secret, 7 digit integer, made up of one copy of each of the digits, from 2 through 8. What must be added to the 4th digit, to make the secret integer divisible by 9.

  • @playgirl7305
    @playgirl730521 күн бұрын

    I assume that the extremely small number of students who got the question 11 just guessed. Because statically, if the majority had guessed, the percentage of correct answers would be higher.

  • @atharvsharma7648
    @atharvsharma764810 күн бұрын

    I don't get how are so many people criticizing the language of the question itself. I don't think anything was left unclear, indeed, such questions must be read a few times to digest all the details told in the question. There is nothing wrong with the way the question has been phrased, maybe there are better ways to phrase it, but it's telling all you need to know. An event is simply a subset of sets, thus the first thing that must pop into the mind would be that the only meaningful way to steer ahead would be to take an event as the subset of the provided set and move ahead.

  • @chair7728
    @chair772813 күн бұрын

    A lot of people are complaining about the wording being unclear, but the wording is completely unambiguous if you know the mathematical definitions, however I don’t know if the formal definitions are actually taught

  • @ezxd5192
    @ezxd519223 күн бұрын

    What does "number of ordered pairs (A,B)" means

  • @anshumanagrawal346

    @anshumanagrawal346

    3 күн бұрын

    I mean, if you're asking what an ordered pair is, it's just an element of P(S)×P(S) in this case (P(S) denotes the power set of S), satisfying the required condition. So you're essentially asked how many elements of P(S)×P(S) satisfy the given condition.

  • @mahendraasati5958
    @mahendraasati595820 күн бұрын

    They were able to solve the question in the time limit as they had a better way to solve and visualise then you. I was from batch jee 2023 and we were taught that way😅.

  • @pranavshankar6222
    @pranavshankar622218 күн бұрын

    Is Jee main an AMC12 and Jee advanced an AIME?

  • @EchoXero25
    @EchoXero2525 күн бұрын

    green and red...my two mortal enemies (color deficiency...)

  • @absolutezero9874
    @absolutezero987421 күн бұрын

    Good job ignoring 👍🏼👍🏼

  • @duryodhan903
    @duryodhan90312 күн бұрын

    I appeared in JEE advanced 2019, and was solving same paper yesterday to know how much can I score now after 5 years. But this question just exhausted me thanks presh to help me out😊😊😊.

  • @Nepali_guy_Study_yt_account

    @Nepali_guy_Study_yt_account

    11 күн бұрын

    Did you get admission in IIT bro ???

  • @pawewojtun8335
    @pawewojtun833522 күн бұрын

    I finished school with a math test score of 96% and for me this task is completely beyond my understanding. oh

  • @kiranvootori8101
    @kiranvootori810126 күн бұрын

    Just for information. Students appearing for JEE advanced are the top 10% of those who appear in JEE mains.

  • @varunsoni5278

    @varunsoni5278

    9 күн бұрын

    That's not true. Why are you spreading misinformation?

  • @paragggoyal1552
    @paragggoyal155213 күн бұрын

    i am well versed with probability, what the hell is the question saying??

  • @MagruderSpoots
    @MagruderSpoots27 күн бұрын

    What purpose was the first sentence?

  • @chair7728

    @chair7728

    13 күн бұрын

    To tell the test taker that the notation |X| denotes the cardinality of a set X so there is no confusion on the meaning

  • @ChannelTerminatedbyYouTube
    @ChannelTerminatedbyYouTube4 күн бұрын

    Bro is trying to attract the individuals of India 😂

  • @variableparameters
    @variableparameters27 күн бұрын

    Solved!

  • @heroadd7320
    @heroadd732027 күн бұрын

    Can i go into this iits or mit as a marrocan student?

  • @vedants.vispute77

    @vedants.vispute77

    27 күн бұрын

    Yes you can, but you wud need to go to Dubai or directly come to India to give the paper.

  • @architmishra015

    @architmishra015

    26 күн бұрын

    Is your life not going a little too well?

  • @aname4731
    @aname473116 күн бұрын

    The wording is kinda confusing but once you understand it it's a neat problem. I got the right answer but it definitely took me more than 3 minutes.

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