Sofia and tess will each randomly choose one of the 10 integers from 1 to 10. what is the probability that neither integer chosen will be the square of the other?

There are possible pairs they can choose. Let and denote the integers that Sofia and Tess, respectively, choose, so that denotes the integer pair.

The event that either or has 5 possible ways of occurring:



So the probability of this happening is . You're interested in the complement, which means the answer is 95%.

I'm sure the answer is a