Question

michel, jonothan and 2 of their friends each rides there bikes to school. if they have an equally likely chance of arriving first what is the probability that jonothan will arrive 1st and michel will arrive 2nd

Answer 1

michael, jonothan, and 2 friends ---> so 4 people total

because there's an equally likely chance they'll all get first, there is a 1/4 chance of jonothan arriving first

now that jonathan has already been assigned to first place, what's the chance that michael will arrive 2nd?

once you have both probabilities, multiply them together to get the probability of both events