SOLUTION: You own 23 CDs. You want to randomly arrange 6 of them in a CD rack. What is the probability that the rack ends up in alphabetical order?
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Question 1109903: You own 23 CDs. You want to randomly arrange 6 of them in a CD rack. What is the probability that the rack ends up in alphabetical order?
Answer by greenestamps(13209) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The number of possible arrangments of the 6 CDs is 6!=720.
Only 1 of them is in alphabetical order.
The probability is 1/720.
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