Five ten-sided rolls in strictly increasing order
Question
A fair die with faces to is rolled five times. The probability that each roll is strictly larger than the one before is . Find .
Short answer
. 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 favourable sequences out of .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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