Four dogs in a row at a round table
Question
Six dogs and six cats are placed at random in the seats around a round table. What is the probability that some four consecutive seats are all occupied by dogs?
Short answer
. A run of four or more dogs means that, going clockwise from some seat, we see a cat followed by four dogs. With only six dogs, at most one seat can start such a pattern, so these 12 events are disjoint. Each has probability , and the total is .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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