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A theater has 48 seats arranged in 8 rows of 6 seats each. three friends buy
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document.write( "Only the number of rows matters. [The 48 and 6 are irrelevant.]\r\n" );
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document.write( "Suppose the friends are A, B and C.\r\n" );
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document.write( "   [Since \"AND\" tells us to multiply probabilities] \r\n" );
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document.write( "[Notice that the first probability is 1 because it is certain\r\n" );
document.write( "that A will be assigned to some row.]\r\n" );
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