A manager decides to distribute Rs. 20000 between two employees 
and 
. He knows 
deserves more than 
, but does not know how much more. So, he decides to arbitrarily break ₹ 20000 into two parts and gives 
the bigger part. Then, the chance that 
gets twice as much as 
or more is
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The given situation is possible if 
gets anything between 10001 and 19999 and Y gets between 1 and 9999
Total 9999 cases are possible
Now considering above situation
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