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Homework Statement
Given M boxes as well as N similar (distinguishable) balls. Each single
ball is assigned to box i with probability pi, where i = 1...M. All N balls are distributed
independently among the M boxes, where as many as desired balls fit into each box. How large is the probability that the i-th box contains ni balls?
The Attempt at a Solution
My answer is (pi)^N,
I think of this problem as some analogy to throwing a dice with M faces N times, where each
face has a probability of pi to show up.
But I'm not shure if this analogy is or my answer is good.