On a television game show, a contestant is shown a set of 5 prizes and a...
On a television game show, a contestant is shown a set of 5 prizes and a set of 5 price tags. If he matches all of the price tags to their correct prizes, then he wins all of the prizes; otherwise, he wins nothing. What is the probability that he wins by placing the price tags with the prizes completely at random?
Homework Answers
number of ways to tags price tags to prizes =5! =120
and number of correct ways =1
hence probability that he wins by placing the price tags with the prizes completely at random =1/120
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