Scheduling the Best Episode
Problem
A television series has episodes, where . After watching the first episode, a viewer plans the rest as follows:
1. counting days from the day after finishing the first episode, the remaining episodes are distributed at random over days; 2. on each day the viewer watches either nothing or exactly one complete episode; 3. at most one episode is watched per day.
The most exciting part of the series is episode . Let be the day (counted as above) on which episode is watched.
Part 1. Give the distribution of , and prove that the most likely day for watching episode is day .
Part 2. Find .
Answer
Solution
| Difficulty | 8/10 |
|---|---|
| Topics | combinatorics, Counting, probability |
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