Problem 1-94. Augustin is in line to choose a new locker at school. The locker coordinator has each student reach into a bin and pull out a locker number. There is one locker at the school that all the kids dread! This locker, # 831, is supposed to be haunted, and anyone who has used it has had strange things happen to him or her! When it is Augustin's turn to reach into the bin and select a locker number, he is verv nervous. He knows that there are 535 lockers left and locker # 831 is one of them. What is the probability that Augustin reaches in and pulls out the dreaded locker # 831? Should he be woried? Explain. Homework Help

In 2004 it surfaced in Reader's Digest presented as having happened to a teacher at an unnamed community college. Four students walked in halfway through American history test my father was giving at the local community college. "Sorry," they said, "we had a flat tire." An understanding man, Dad said that if they could answer just one question correctly, he would give them each an "A" for the exam. The students agreed. So my father handed each one a piece of paper, placed them in four separate comers and said, "Write down which tire was flat." Kurt Smith What is the probability that these four students would give identical answers if they hadn't had a flat tire? Why?

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