If people can be born with the same probability any day of the week, what is the probability that in a random group of seven people two were born on Monday and two on Sunday?
My analysis:
7 people can be born in 7^7 ways.
7 people can be shuffled in 7! Ways.
4 people occupy two days and the 3 remaining people occupy the 5 other days in 5^3
My analysis lead to the following solution: 7!*5^3/7^7
Is that correct?
[Math] what is the probability that in a random group of seven people two were born on Monday and two on Sunday
probability
Best Answer
There are only $^7C_4\cdot \frac{4!}{2!\cdot 2!}\cdot 5^3$ ways to have four out of seven people with two birthdays on Monday and two on Tuesday.
$P(\text{mmtt}) = \frac{^7C_4\cdot \frac{4!}{2!\cdot 2!}\cdot 5^3}{7^7} = .03187$