Four friends at five diner branches all apart
Question
Four friends plan to have lunch at Jimmy's Diner, not realising it has five branches. Each friend independently goes to a branch chosen uniformly at random. What is the probability that no two of them are at the same branch?
Short answer
. There are equally likely assignments, of which use four different branches. So the probability is .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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