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If there are 12strangers in a room, what is the probability that no two of them celebrate their birthday in the same month?

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The probability that no two of them celebrate their birthday in the

the same month is12!1212.

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01

Given Information.

There are 12strangers in a room,

02

Explantion.

If 12people are in the room:

The outcome space of the experiment isSx1,x2,x3,x12:xi{1,2,3,12} where the vector describes their months of birth.

because each element of the vector can be chosen inways.

As each outcome from the outcome space is equally likely, the Axioms give:

(is the number of elements in the set)

And the number of sample events in the event that no two people share their month of birth isthe number of different valued vectors insize.


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