Sack Lunches
A group of 10 students get onto a bus for a field trip and put their lunches into a cooler. Later in the day, at lunch time, the class sponsor reaches in, randomly grabs a lunch, and hands it to each student that arrives randomly.
Did anyone get their lunch?
Hint: Suppose there wer three students and three lunches.Generate the different possible combinations of students and lunches.
| Students | Lunches | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
2 |
2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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