You cannot remember your 5digit bikelock combination What is
You cannot remember your 5-digit bike-lock combination. What is the probability that you guess the combination correctly?
Solution
We know that the probability of an event is (possible outcome/total outcome)
I will assume that repeats are allowed as in most combination locks so number of possible codes
= 105 = 100000
We also know that there is only one correct combination so the probability that you guess the combination correctly
= 1/105 = 1/100000 = 0.00001
