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The supreme court has given a 6 to 3 decisions upholding the lower court. The number of ways it can give a majority decision reversing the lower court is

Harshan Pothula

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11-Aug-21 12:15

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Total number of judges in the Supreme court is 6+3=9. To reverse the decision of lower court, we need to have more than 50% of the judgeâ??s support. 50% of 9 is 4.5 i.e. we need to have minimum 5 judgeâ??s support. It could have 9, 8, 7, 6 or 5 judge support. So, number of ways that minimum 5 judges lower the decision out of 9 judges is given by N=9C9+9C8+9C7+9C6+9C5 = 256

Sahibdeep Singh

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11-Aug-21 13:14