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16.2 Exercise 4

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Consider a system similar to the one in the figure, except that it contains six particles instead of four. What is the probability of having all the particles in only one of the two boxes in the case? Compare this with the similar probability for the system of four particles that we have derived to be equal to 18.\frac{1}{8} . What does this comparison tell us about even larger systems?

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