When five basketball players are about to have a free-throw competition, they often draw names out of a hat to randomly select the order in which they shoot. what is the probability that they shoot free throws in alphabetical order? assume each player has a different name p(shoot free throws in alphabetical order) (type an integer or a simplified fraction)

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If we multiply there will be total of ways to arrange the players names in order.

Since there is only one order that will be arranged alphabetically, the probability that a randomly selected order is alphabetical is 1/120, or about 0.0083.

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the largest number of the four options is 1.8 x 10-2

you have it in scientific notation.

1.80 x 10-6   = 0.00000180

1.80 x 10-4   = 0.000180 (bigger, or "less small", than the former one)

so

1.8 x 10-2       = 0.0180. as you see. the "less small", or the biggest one of them all.

as you have negative exponent, it means you are dividing 1.8 by 100 (i.e. moving the dot towards left, two times).

if you had positive exponent for the scientific notation, power of tenths, you would be multiplying times 100 (moving the dot towards right) as below:

1.8 x (10)2 = 180

so. if you have negative exponent in scientific notation, move the dot toward left. if it is positive, toward right as many times the exponent tells you.