SOLUTION: Five students, all of different, are to be randomly arranged in a line. What is the probability that the tallest student will be first in line and that the shortest student will be

SOLUTION: Five students, all of different, are to be randomly arranged in a line. What is the probability that the tallest student will be first in line and that the shortest student will be

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Question 553309: Five students, all of different, are to be randomly arranged in a line. What is the probability that the tallest student will be first in line and that the shortest student will be last in line?
Answer by prateekagrawal(56) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
total ways= 5! = 120.
since we fixed places of two students.
so, just 3 students remain.
and we can arrange them in 3! = 6 ways.
so,
probability = is the answer.
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