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Question 1078585: You and your best friend are two of the nine students in your speech class who will give a five minute speech during class tomorrow the order of the speeches will be determined at random what is the probability that you are the first student to give her speech in your best friend is second Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! your probability of going first is 1/9
after that there are 8 left, and your friend's probability is 1/8
the joint probability is 1/9*1/8=1/72.
