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Pair Playing Probability (Posted on 2005-08-02) Difficulty: 3 of 5
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?

See The Solution Submitted by Old Original Oskar!    
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re: No Subject - to riten | Comment 25 of 32 |
(In reply to No Subject by riten)

Riten, I initially undertood as you did. In fact, OOO is asking for the odds in the whole tournament, where in each round, half of the players are eliminated.
  Posted by pcbouhid on 2005-08-08 15:01:01

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