You are at a campus party where there are a total number of n people. The host asked everyone to put their phones in a bowl while walking in. A noise complaint ends the party abruptly, and everyone heads for the door, hastily grabbing their phones from the bowl. Assume every guest has one and exactly one phone, and that they pick a phone at random (so that every assignment of a phone to a person is equally likely). What is the probability that: a. Every person gets their phone back? b. The first m persons to pick each get their own phones back? c. The first m persons to pick each get a phone belonging to the last m persons to pick? (Hint: Try this thought experiment with a few choices of mand n to get a feel for the numbers that show up.)

You are at a campus party where there are a total number of n people. The host asked everyone to put their phones in a bowl while walking in. A noise complaint ends the party abruptly, and everyone heads for the door, hastily grabbing their phones from the bowl. Assume every guest has one and exactly one phone, and that they pick a phone at random (so that every assignment of a phone to a person is equally likely). What is the probability that: a. Every person gets their phone back? b. The first m persons to pick each get their own phones back? c. The first m persons to pick each get a phone belonging to the last m persons to pick? (Hint: Try this thought experiment with a few choices of mand n to get a feel for the numbers that show up.)

College Algebra (MindTap Course List)

12th Edition

ISBN:9781305652231

Author:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Publisher:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Chapter8: Sequences, Series, And Probability

Section8.7: Probability

Problem 48E

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