3/9/15

Today's problem is an easy one (a little easter egg for y'all)

There are 16 boys in a line.  The first boy picks a number in (0,1].  The next picked a number in (0,2].  This continued till the last boy picked a number in (0,16].  What is the probability that the numbers picked by the boys are strictly increasing?

Note: number implies real number

Hint: Do each case (first boy vs second boy) at a time. What did we use in a previous problem to find probability with infinite ranges? Check out 3/5/15.

Level: 4