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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: RAAARRGGHH!!!! not again!
- Message-ID: <8748@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:04:42 GMT
- References: <C1GuHw.zuF@austin.ibm.com>
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- In article <C1GuHw.zuF@austin.ibm.com> bmoore@sunfish.austin.ibm.com (Bryan Moore) writes:
- > Ralph, you are dead wrong.
- No, strange enough, Ralph's answer is right.
- The question was: you meet one girl, what are the chances of the other also
- being a girl. This question has a different solution than when one of the
- parents tells you that there is one girl.
-
- > We're saying that both children
- > have been born and you see one of them on the street, you don't know which
- > child). You see a girl, what's the probability the other is a girl.
- Yup, that is the question.
- >
- > Back to the dice... Roll two dice 100 times. Get 100 pieces of paper and
- > write the results of the first die on one side and write the results
- > of the second die on the other side of the piece of paper. Put all the
- > pieces of paper in a hat. Now pick a piece of paper out of the hat.
- > You see a six on the piece of paper, what is the probability that the
- > other side has a six? IT IS 1/11!!!!!!!
- But this is the answer to the other question! (You throw two dice, one of
- them shows a 6, what is the probability that the other also shows a 6.)
-
- The correct analogy is: you throw two dice, the first one you see shows a
- 6, what is the probability that the other one shows a 6.
-
- The other question can also be put as the next analogy: you throw two dice,
- the first one you see shows a 6, and/or the second one you see shows a 6,
- what is the probability that both show a 6.
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