A school has 100 students distributed among 1st to 10th standards. Based on…
2026
A school has 100 students distributed among 1st to 10th standards.
Based on this, which one of the following statements is always correct?
Answer: A. There are at least 10 students who belong to the same standard. — Distributing \(100\) students among \(10\) standards guarantees that some standard contains at least \(\lceil 100/10 \rceil = 10\) students by the pigeonhole…
- A.
There are at least 10 students who belong to the same standard.
- B.
There is at least one student in each standard.
- C.
There are at most 10 students in 10th standard.
- D.
The total number of students from 1st to 5th standards is at least 50.
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Correct answer: A
Distributing \(100\) students among \(10\) standards guarantees that some standard contains at least \(\lceil 100/10 \rceil = 10\) students by the pigeonhole principle.