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Hi! You mean like this? Quote:
Just delete the part you don't want, or put what you want between "[QUOTE] and [QUOTE]" As to the two children question, forget it! He answered the wrong question. The way it was asked there is only one answer to it, and KV got it right. Cheers. |
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Yes . Thanks lomaca |
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The fact of what they have or don't already have, is irrelevant to the answer.
If I flip a coin and I already have one heads, I still have a 50% chance of tails next spin.
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What is the difference between Girl-boy and Boy-Girl, they are the same thing. Boy-boy is an invalid combination given the question. There are two possible combinations Girl Girl Girl Boy That's it.
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Of course a mathmatician, because he wouldn't want to create confusion, would ask the question thusly: "If at least one of the children is a girl" and then might get an answer other than 100% or 50%. But Woof's point is valid in that we have to get used to using half ar sed information if we want to win at handicapping (my phrasing not his).
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This problem is a classic case of conditional probability. The average person has trouble understanding it. The boy/girl problem can be tested by repeatedly tossing 2 coins and recording the results(say 20 times). There are 3 possible outcomes ( 4 really) - HH,HT,TT.
Now we ask what is the probability of the other coin being a TAIL given that one of them is a HEAD? Straight away we can ignore all the TT's from our sample (cross them off the list) because the question asks "given that one of them is a head". That will leave only HH's and HT's in the list. Now put a circle around any T in the list. You should find about a 2:1 ratio or a 2/3 to 1/3 Tails to Heads. This better illustrates conditional probability. With the coin or the boy/girl examples there are 4 possible outcomes - HH, HT, TH, TT each with a 25% chance of occuring. When we ask the question "given that one of them is a ..." we are effictively saying that one of these situations did not happen. In the above example we eliminated TT leaving HT, TH, HH. Now we are left with 2 T's and 1 H with the corresponding H which we were told existed. So the probability of the other coin being a T is 2/3 and an H is 1/3. |
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Well we have convincing arguments supporting 50%, 66% and 100% depending on how you read the question, what I would be interested to see now is the rationalle behind the other options offered. Nanook? La Mer? I particularly liked Kenchar's explanation. It surprised me at first but then made me realise that a standard view of statistics is absolutely not essential to being a successful punter.
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In my case it was by multiplying 0.5 by 0.5 which gives a result of 0.25, which would be correct other than for the issue of the prior knowledge of knowing that one of the children has already been identified as a girl. |
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come down
i would like to hear jfc's thoughts on this becouse as it stands i'm wity cp...
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I didn't really read the question and multiplyed 0.5x0.5x0.5.......don't really know why.......don't really care, but one thing I do know is that 98% of the population who suffer from heart disease own a colour television?
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