Grinstead-Snell-Probability · Problem 4.1.34

Conditional Probability

Mathematics · independence-hat-check

Problem

Four women, A, B, C, and D, check their hats, and the hats are returned in a random manner. Let Ω\Omega be the set of all possible permutations of A, B, C, D. Let Xj=1X_j = 1 if the jjth woman gets her own hat back and 0 otherwise. What is the distribution of XjX_j? Are the XiX_i's mutually independent?

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