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counting and probability intermediate

Problem

Two different natural numbers are selected from the set . What is the probability that the greatest common factor of these two numbers is one? Express your answer as a common fraction.
Solution
We consider all the two-element subsets of the six-element set . There are such subsets. And of these, only the subsets are not relatively prime. So the probability of the two-element subset's elements having greatest common factor one is .
Final answer
\frac{11}{15}