Counting & ProbabilityChallengeRecursion, Catalan Numbers & Generating Functions
Recursion, Catalan Numbers & Generating Functions · Challenge problem
Tickets cost . Twelve people wait in line: seven will pay with a bill and five with a bill. The cashier starts with no money and gives each payer a bill in change. If all orders of the kinds of bills are equally likely, what is the probability that the cashier is never unable to make change? Express your answer as a common fraction.