2015 AIME II Problems/Problem 2
Problem
In a new school 
percent of the students are freshmen, 
percent are sophomores, 
percent are juniors, and 
percent are seniors. All freshmen are required to take Latin, and 
percent of the sophomores, 
percent of the juniors, and percent of the seniors elect to take Latin. The probability that a randomly chosen Latin student is a sophomore is 
, where 
and 
are relatively prime positive integers. Find 
.
Solution
We see that 
of students are learning Latin. In addition, 
of students are sophomores learning Latin. Thus, our desired probability is 
and our answer is 
See also
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