Do you mean if the rank of a student is better than the rank of the prev student then he/she gets a lollipop?
Thank you, Ashim On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:57 PM, vamsee marpu <marpu.vam...@gmail.com>wrote: > Does anybody know the solution for the following problem : > > > *A headmaster of a primary school performs an activity with the students > of a class to encourage them to perform better in academics. He asks them to > stand in queue, starts calling the students out one by one and asks them > their rank in class. Each one has a unique rank in class. If the rank of a > student is better than his/her previous best rank, then he awards him/ her a > lollipop (students love lollipops). Note that the first one in the queue > will always get a lollipop and the students arrange themselves in random > order in the queue. What is the expected number of lollipops the headmaster > will have to distribute among students if the total number of students in > the class is 69? Note that the answer can be a fractional number.* > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > M. Vamsee > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
