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Unusual Tennis Players
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
Is it likely or unlikely that most professional tennis players have more than the average number of arms for humans?
Answer
It's very likely. Since not everyone has two arms, the average number of arms for humans is 1.99999... Most professional tennis players have 2 arms, which is higher than the average.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Most, but not all. There could actually be a higher percentage of real people.
i agree that it is very LIKELY. Nice bit of INFO on the average arms of people. Nice work
That was pretty hard, at one point I was thinkng of aliens!
That's so easy it's hard! (and that's a compliment) Gr8 job!
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huh? i have 2 arms!
Yeah but if .00001 percent of people don't, and 100 percent of tennis players do, then the population of tennis players have more arms then us.
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