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An ice cream shop sells five-scoop ice cream cones, allowing customers to pick which flavors they want stacked on their cone. The shop has the following ice cream flavors available: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, mint & chocolate chip, rocky road, cookies & cream, cookie dough, cotton candy, butter pecan, birthday cake, and cherry. Note that customers can order a five-scoop cone with multiple scoops of the same flavor.
a) How many five-scoop cones are possible if order of the ice cream scoops matter?
b) How many groupings of five flavors are possible for a five-scoop cone (meaning that scoop order is ignored)?
c) If a customer asks to be “surprised” by a randomized five-scoop cone, how likely is it that they will receive a cone with five scoops of the same ice cream flavor if the process is truly random?