A class has 9 students who are to be assigned seating at random. What is the probability that the students will be arranged in order from shortest to tallest? (Assume that no two students are the same height.)

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Cuddles

9 December, 06:43

A class has 9 students who are to be assigned seating at random. What is the probability that the students will be arranged in order from shortest to tallest? (Assume that no two students are the same height.)

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Justice Solis · Answer 1

Okay there are multiple ways to do this by age, alphabetically, height so i honestly don't know but there could be 1,4 or 1,9 ... if its only about height then it would be 1,2

Jaidyn Woodard · Answer 2

1:2

you have 2 choices, to go from tallest to shortest or from shortest to tallest.

and we picked one choice so it's 1 of 2

also, like flipping a coin, you have 2 choices, the probability is 1 of 2