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A person write `4` letters and addresses `4` envelopes. If the letters are placed in the envelopes at random, then the probability that all letters are not placed in the right envelopes, is

A

a) `1/4`

B

b) `11/24`

C

c) `15/24`

D

d) `23/24`

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No’s of ways - four letter placed in four envelopes is `4! =24` ways

If all letters go into the right place, then no’s of ways `=1`

Probability of letters placed in the right envelop`=1/24`

Probability of not placed in right envelops`=1−1/24=23/24`

Required probability `=23/24`

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