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Imagine a parking lot with 500 cars with license plates numbered from 001 to 500 and no two cars having the same license plate number. At 6 pm, they all leave the lot one by one. What is the probability that the license plate numbers of the first four cars to leave are in increasing order of magintude?

1/8
1/24
1/64
1/128


I am quoting a legend here :

Any four cars have an equal chance of leaving the lot first, so we can concentrate on just one specific bunch of four cars. (Whether there are 999 or just 4 cars in the lot is irrelevant). For a given set of four cars, they can leave the lot in 4! or 24 ways, only one of which the license plate numbers will be in increasing order. Hence, the answer is 1/24.



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