3 Bob has been given a pile of five letters addressed to five different people. He has also been given a pile of five envelopes addressed to the same five people. Bob puts one letter in each envelope at random.
- How many different ways are there to pair the letters with the envelopes?
- Find the number of arrangements with exactly three letters in the correct envelopes.
- (a) Show that there are two derangements of the three symbols A , B and C .
(b) Hence find the number of arrangements with exactly two letters in the correct envelopes.
Let \(\mathrm { D } _ { n }\) represent the number of derangements of \(n\) symbols. - Explain why \(\mathrm { D } _ { n } = ( n - 1 ) \times \left( \mathrm { D } _ { n - 1 } + \mathrm { D } _ { n - 2 } \right)\).
- Find the number of ways in which all five letters are in the wrong envelopes.