SOLUTION: You are ordering a hamburger and can get up to eight toppings, but each topping can only be used once. You tell the cashier to surprise you with the toppings you get. What is the p

Question 1176870: You are ordering a hamburger and can get up to eight toppings, but each topping can only be used once. You tell the cashier to surprise you with the toppings you get. What is the probability that you get zero toppings? Express your answer as a fraction or decimal number rounded to four decimal places.
Answer by ikleyn(52777) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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You are ordering a hamburger and can get up to eight toppings, but each topping can only be used once.
You tell the cashier to surprise you with the toppings you get. What is the probability
that you get zero toppings? Express your answer as a fraction or decimal number rounded to four decimal places.
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If there are 8 possible toppings, then it is possible to have   = 256  of their possible combinations.


The probability to have some specific combination is, therefore  .


In particular, the probability to have randomly an empty topic is  ,  too.

Solved.

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