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PTE Listening - Retell Lecture Practice Questions - Audio with Transcript

You will hear a lecture. After listening to the lecture, in 10 seconds, please speak into the microphone and retell what you have just heard from the lecture in your own words. You will have 40 seconds to give your response. PTE Listening - Retell Lecture Practice Questions - Audio with Transcript ITEM 01: PTE Retell Lecture - The Pigeonhole Principle TRANSCRIPT: In mathematics, the pigeonhole principle states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m > 0, then at least one container must contain more than one item. This theorem is exemplified in real life by truisms like "there must be at least two left gloves or two right gloves in a group of three gloves". It is an example of a counting argument, and despite seeming intuitive it can be used to demonstrate possibly unexpected results; for example, that two people in London have the same number of hairs on their heads. The first formalization of the idea is believed to have been m...