Seven people seated round a table in age order
Question
Seven people, no two of the same age, take seats around a circular table in a uniformly random arrangement. What is the probability that going around the table their ages are in sorted order, whether increasing clockwise or counter-clockwise?
Short answer
. Up to rotation there are equally likely circular orders. Exactly two of them (ascending one way or the other) are sorted, giving .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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