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A total of n balls, numbered 1 through n, are put into n urns, also numbered 1 through n i...

A total of n balls, numbered 1 through n, are put into n urns, also numbered 1 through n in such a way that ball i is equally likely to go into any of the urns 1,2,...,i. Find

(a) the expected number of urns that are empty;


(b) the probability that none of the urns is empty.

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