Secret Santa

Discrete Mathematics Level 2

Six friends are doing a "secret santa gift exchange". Their names are placed into a hat, and each person chooses a name randomly (without replacement) from the hat.

However, this leads to the possibility that someone chooses their own name and doesn’t get a gift! What is the expected value for the number of people who will choose their own name?

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