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) About Me  (Show Source):
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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.