In horse racing, a trifecta is a bet for which you must pick the first, second, and third place winners in their proper order in order to win a payoff. If there are fourteen horses racing, and you randomly select three as your bet in the trifecta, what is the probability that you will win?

Question

anonymous · Answer

A
1/728

B
1/364

C
1/2184

D
1/2174

paxpolaris · Answer

total number of way to pick = 14*13*12

1 out of that

anonymous · Answer

thanks

paxpolaris · Answer

since you have 14 choices for 1st horse, 13 fir 2nd ....