IMC Trading–styleTrader InternQuant Trader InternQuestion #48
In a beer pong game with a 4x4 arrangement of cups, each time you land a ball in a cup, both the row and the column containing that cup are removed. Assuming each throw lands in any remaining cup with equal probability, what is the probability that you win the game in the minimum possible number of throws?
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