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| Posted by dalfamnest | 10/23/09 |
| Hi everyone! Hope you enjoy this little teaser. I thought it was a fun idea. How about some comments, please - it's my first Probability Teaser and I'd value some DEEF, + or -. [See today's TOTD!] :D |
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| Posted by valencia | 10/23/09 |
| really good teaser had to think about that one!! good job on being the first one :D |
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| Posted by precious1026 | 11/15/09 |
| :evil: It seems to me the answer is difficult to achieve without certain information. Perhaps, it's the formation of the Question, which appears to assert there is more families than the one given in the problem. Well, I guess the means of 2.75 is a logical number of children in a family. I would say, and I usually say "keep them coming, but I would be lying if I did say "keep them coming. What is the probability of you making up more problems such as this? :evil: Actually, this is a good teaser for those who understand the mean... |
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| Posted by javaguru | 12/30/09 |
| Simple and fairly easy. You can simplify it further by ignoring male/female permutations as:
.5 probability second child is different than first (2 kids);
.5 x .5 = .25 that second child is same as first and third child is different than first (3 kids);
.5 x .5 = .25 that second and third children are same as first (4 kids).
.5 x 2 + .25 x 3 + .25 x 4 = 2.75
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