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Question
A teacher wants to select the class monitor in a class of 30 boys and 20 girls. In how many ways can he select a student if the monitor can be a boy or a girl?
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Solution
There are 30 boys and 20 girls in a class.
The teacher wants to select a class monitor from these boys and girls.
A boy can be selected in 30 ways and a girl can be selected in 20 ways.
∴ By using the fundamental principle of addition, the number of ways either a boy or a girl is selected as a class monitor = 30 + 20 = 50.
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