Stanley’s bicycle lock has 4 dials, each with digits from 0 to 9. What is the probability that someone could guess his combination on the first try by randomly selecting a number from 0 to 9 four times?
(the answer i got was 1/6561)
The number of digits on each dial is 10 and they are independent of each
other (mutually exclusive) so the number of different combinations is ....
==> 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 10,000
So, the probability of guessing the combination is 1 / 10,000 = 0.0001
That's actually the answer I see in the answer key but would I put 10 as the denominator and not 9?
Yes because 0 to 9 has 10 is 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 so 10
ok tysm!
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