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Thirty-two players ranked 1 to 32 are playing in a knockout tournament. Assume that in every match between any two players the better ranked player wins, the probability that ranked 1 and ranked 2 players are winner and runner up respectively is , then the value of  is, where [.] represents the greatest integer function



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Thirty-two players ranked 1 to 32 are playing in a knockout tournament. Assume that in every match between any two players the better ranked player wins, the probability that ranked 1 and ranked 2 players are winner and runner up respectively is , then the value of  is, where [.] represents the greatest integer function

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Answer Key / Explanation : (3) -

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For ranked 1 and 2 players to be winners and runners up, respectively, they should not be paired with each other in any round

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