Ms. Banerjee's Mathematics Competition Team Selection

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Ms. Banerjee, class teacher for 12th standard, wants to send teams (based on past performance) of three students each to district, state, national, and international competition in mathematics. Till now, every student of the class has appeared in 100 school level tests. The students had following distribution of marks in the tests, in terms of "average" and "number of times a student scored cent per cent marks".

StudentAverageNumber of times scored cent per cent
1707
26015
3658
4701
5656
66510
7654
86012
9653
10608
11701
12656
13702
146020
15655

Ms. Banerjee has carefully studied chances of her school winning each of the competitions. Based on in-depth calculations, she realized that her school is quite likely to win district level competition but has low chances of winning the international competition. She listed down the following probabilities of wins for different competitions. Prize was highest for international competition and lowest for district level competition (in that order).

CompetitionProbability of win
District0.95
State0.60
National0.10
International0.05

All the students are studying in the school for last twelve years. She wanted to select the best team for all four competitions (Ms. Banerjee had no other information to select students).

Question 1 of 3

Which of three members should form the team for the International competition?

  1. A.

    4, 11, 14

  2. B.

    2, 8, 14

  3. C.

    1, 6, 12

  4. D.

    13, 14, 15

  5. E.

    1, 3, 4

Question 2 of 3

Which of the following members should constitute the team for the district level competition?

  1. A.

    4, 11, 14

  2. B.

    1, 4, 11

  3. C.

    4, 5, 6

  4. D.

    4, 11, 13

  5. E.

    Any team can win the competition

Question 3 of 3

Ms. Banerjee has to select the team for national competition after she has selected the team for international competition. A student selected for international competition cannot be a part of national competition. Which is the best team for the national competition?

  1. A.

    1, 7, 4

  2. B.

    8, 9, 10

  3. C.

    2, 8, 14

  4. D.

    3, 6, 1

  5. E.

    Any of remaining students, as it would not matter

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