A certain roller coaster has 3 cars, and a passenger is equally likely to ride in any 1 of the 3 cars each time that passenger rides the roller coaster. If a certain passenger is to ride the roller coaster 3 times, what is the probability that the passenger will ride in each of the 3 cars? A. 0 B. 1/9 C. 2/9 D. 1/3 E. 1
suppose the cars are marked sepertely as A, B, and C.
The first time, the guy will take any car. Set the car number is A.
The second time, he will have 3 choices: A, B and C. In order to take a different car. He has to chose B or C. The probablity is 2/3.
The third time, he still have 3 choces. However, he has only one choice -- the car he didn't take in the first and second time. The prabability is 1/3.