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1.4 Exercise 10

Avg difficulty 2.5

Ten employees of a company drive their cars to the city each day and park randomly in ten spots. What is the (classical) probability that on a given day Jim will be in place three? There are n!n ! equally likely ways to arrange n items (order important).

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 1.4 Problems on Probability Systems, exercise 10

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Adapted from Applied Probability © 2009 Paul E. Pfeiffer. Licensed under CC BY 3.0. Source: Applied Probability. Imported at revision d7a0420.