Elvis Rodriguez wrote:
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> n men and m women are sitting around a ruond table. What is the
> Expected number of men that will have at least one woman by his side?
provided that they sit randomly, the probability that a randomly selected
man has at least one woman by his side should be (2m)/(n+m-1) ? you can
multiply it by n to get the expected number you want.
k
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