A teacher will select a student from a class with N students to present their work. A random selection will be done to determine the order of each student. She wrote the names of all students on small pieces of paper and put the papers in an urn. Accidently, your name has been written twice. What is the probability that you will be selected in the nth placement for n = 1, 2, . . . ,N?

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 A teacher will select a student from a class with N students to present their
work. A random selection will be done to determine the order of each student. She
wrote the names of all students on small pieces of paper and put the papers in an urn.
Accidently, your name has been written twice. What is the probability that you will
be selected in the nth placement for n = 1, 2, . . . ,N?

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