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fenix001 [56]
3 years ago
10

Imagine you have m distinct baskets in which you’re throwing n number of balls at random. Each throw is independent of any other

throw, and every basket is equally as likely to get a ball on a throw. After the n throws, what is the probability that a given basket is empty?
Mathematics
1 answer:
blagie [28]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

(\frac{m-1}{m})^n

Step-by-step explanation:

Given a basket, the probability of a ball to end there is \frac{1}{m} (because there are m baskets).

Then, the probability of a ball to end in other basket is \frac{m-1}{m}.

Finally, the probability of the basket to remain empty after n throws is

(\frac{m-1}{m})^n

This last is because, given n independets events with probability p, the probability for all of them to happen is p^n. In this case p=\frac{m-1}{m}

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