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Five ten-sided rolls in strictly increasing order

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A fair die with faces 11 to 1010 is rolled five times. The probability that each roll is strictly larger than the one before is x105\dfrac{x}{10^5}. Find xx.

Short answer

252252. A strictly increasing sequence is the same as a choice of 5 distinct values, since each such set can be listed increasingly in exactly one way. So there are (105)=252\binom{10}{5}=252 favourable sequences out of 10510^5.

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