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A school has to send the report cards of 3 students, but the cleark has not paid attention to match the address on the envelope with the student report card is: The probability that exactly one of the students received his or her own report card is:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1

Exactly one correct delivery means one fixed point with the other two interchanged.

The matched student can be chosen in 33 ways and the remaining two must be swapped, giving 33 favourable arrangements out of 3!=63!=6. The probability is 12\frac{1}{2}.

Note: The wording of the question breaks off mid-sentence; we have read it as the three report cards being placed into the three envelopes at random.

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