Let $G$ be a graph in $G(n, p)$ (Erdős–Rényi model). What is the (expected) number of different spanning trees of $G$?
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There are $n^{n-2}$ trees on $n$ labelled vertices. The probability that all $n-1$ edges in a given tree are in the graph is $p^{n-1}$. So the expected number of spanning trees is $p^{n-1} n^{n-2}$.
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