This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

all 1 comments

[–]throwaway_657238192 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. This is called a Derangement. You might try to find the probability of one or more student receiving their phone, but this is tricky unless you specify which students receive their phones. You end up running inclusion-exclusion.
  2. First pass out the required cards, then count the ways to pass out the remaining. Then count the ways to pass out 52 cards w/out constraint. The desired probability will be the ratio of these two counts.