A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134753119
Author: Sheldon Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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You work as a health inspector and must visit each of the 15 restaurants in town once each week, If you were to work 50 weeks a year and use a different order every week, how long would it
take you to try all of the different possible orders?
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