The state of Georgia is divided up into 159 counties. Consider a population of Georgia residents with mutually independent and equally likely home locations. If you have a group of n such residents, what is the probability that two or more people in the group have a home in the same county

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Answer:

[tex]\frac{159^{n} -(\left \{ {{159} \atop {n}} \right.)*n! ) }{159^{n} }[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

number of counties = 159

n number of people are mutually independent and equally likely home locations

considering the details given in the question

n ≤ 159

The number of ways for people ( n ) will live in the different counties (159) can be determined as [tex](\left \{ {{159} \atop {n}} \right} )[/tex]

since the residents are mutually independent and equally likely home locations hence there are : [tex]159^{n}[/tex] ways for the residents to live in

therefore the probability = [tex]\frac{159^{n} -(\left \{ {{159} \atop {n}} \right.)*n! ) }{159^{n} }[/tex]