Suppose each of ten sticks is broken into a long part and a short part. The twenty

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Suppose each of ten sticks is broken into a long part and a short part. The twenty parts are arranged into ten pairs and glued back together so that again there are ten sticks. What is the probability that each long part will be paired with a short part? (This problem is a model for the effects of radiation on a living cell. Each chromosome, as a result of being struck by ionizing radiation, breaks into two parts, one part containing the centromere. The cell will die unless the fragment containing the centromere recombines with a fragment not containing a centromere.)
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