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问题如下:
Gerd Sturm wants to sponsor a contest with a $1 million prize. The winner must pick the stocks that will be the top five performers next year among the 30 stocks in a well-known large-cap stock index. He asks you to estimate the chances that contestants can win the contest.
What are the chances of winning if the contestants must pick the five stocks in the correct order of their total return? If choosing five stocks randomly, a contestant’s chance of winning is one out of:
选项:
A. 142,506
B. 17,100,720
C. 24,300,000
解释:
B is correct. The number of permutations is the number of ways to pick five tocks out of 30 in the correct order:
从题里面,哪里可以看出是需要排序的呢?