A trading card series has 200 different cards in it, which are sold in 5-card packages.

Each package has a random sampling of the cards (assume that any card of the 200 has an equal chance of being in a package).

On the average, how many packages will need to be bought to collect the complete series if...

A: all the cards in a package will always be different

B: a package can have repeats

(a) 2,535,650.040 packages

(b) 3042780048 + 11 zero's

Posted by terry on 2002-12-19 21:18:36