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Pair Playing Probability (Posted on 2005-08-02)

There are N players in a tennis tournament. Assuming the initial pairings are done randomly, what are the odds that a certain pair will play each other?

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Shouldn't it be 1/N-1. if we fix a player , then there are N-1 equally likely partners.

riten.

Posted by riten on 2005-08-08 13:50:23

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