46.Two Customers, One Database
★★★classical probabilityCitadel
Seventy-five customers are split at random into three databases of exactly 25 each, with every such partition equally likely. What is the probability that two particular customers, Bob and Ben, land in the same database?
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Place Bob first and ignore which database he got. Then just count the seats left beside him.
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