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El_Lamo Special user Canada 589 Posts |
I have eight cards, six black and two red.
If the spectator randomly selects the cards, face down, one at a time... what are the odds that the last card will be red? Is it 25% Cheers - El Lamo
Life is a system of circumstance presented coincidently in an illusory way.
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Hideo Kato Inner circle Tokyo 5649 Posts |
Although I don't know why you need this probability, the solution is simple. It is same as the probability in which a red card is selected as the first one. So you are right.
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rgranville Elite user Boston area 463 Posts |
And since nobody asked, I'll give you the mathematical breakdown.
In general, the number of different ways you can arrange 8 cards is 8!. Since 6 of your cards are black, we have to divide that number by 6! And since 2 of the cards are red, we have to divide again by 2! That leaves us with 28 different ways to arrange a packet of 6 black cards and 2 red cards. Now how many of these arrangements have a red card as the last? Well, with the last card as red, that means we have to arrange the other 7. There are 7! ways to arrange 7 cards, and since 6 of them are black, we have to divide this by 6!. That leaves us with 7 ways to have the last card as red. Thus the odds are 7 out of 28, or 1 out of 4, or 25%. :cucumber: |
LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2004-02-11 07:52, rgranville wrote: It's good practice. Way to go!
"Torture doesn't work" lol
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Necromance New user Pattingham, UK 53 Posts |
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On 2004-02-11 07:52, rgranville wrote: Well done! I'm not a great fan of mathematics but that was certainly invigorating
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Heinz Weber New user Austria 83 Posts |
There is always a way to do it more sophisticated!
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