SOLUTION: A company is placing four orders for supplies among eleven different dealers. Each order is randomly assigned to one of the dealer, and a dealer can receive multiple orders. Find t

Question 1130395: A company is placing four orders for supplies among eleven different dealers. Each order is randomly assigned to one of the dealer, and a dealer can receive multiple orders. Find the probability of:
Exactly two of the four orders go to one particular dealer.
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is a 1/11 probability that it will go to any specific dealer.
For four orders, it is 4C2, the number of ways two orders can go to someone, multiplied by (1/11)^2(10/11)^2
this is 6*100/11^4=0.0410
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