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Beyond Horizon Set 3 Paper 2 · Q14

Paper 2Algebra

There are 100100 people in a queue waiting to enter a hall. The hall has exactly 100100 seats numbered from 11 to 100100. The first person in the queue enters the hall, chooses any seat and sits there. The nn-th person in the queue, where nn can be 2,…,1002,\ldots,100, enters the hall after the (n−1)(n-1)-th person is seated. He sits in seat number nn if he finds it vacant; otherwise he takes any unoccupied seat. Find the total number of ways in which 100100 seats can be filled up, provided the 100100-th person occupies seat number 100100.

A100100
B100100100^{100}
C2982^{98}
D2992^{99}
E21002^{100}

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