The Lonely Boxes - Brainteaser
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The Lonely Boxes
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One hundred indistinguishable balls are dropped, one by one, into fifty labeled boxes. Each ball independently chooses a box uniformly at random. How many boxes do you expect to remain completely empty after all the balls have landed?
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