Here's the famous "birthday problem" - How many (randomly selected) people do you need in a room to have at least a 50% chance of at least 2 of them having the same birthdate (not year)? This a college statistics problem and the answer will definitely surprise you! If there is interest, move this to another thread!
My initial answer is 10,900...but of course that is not my final answer.
I left the thread and figuted it out.
I've had 2 college level calculus classes, an undergraduate statistics class, and a post graduate statistics class.
Tutored my sister through college level Algebra after being out of it for 15 years.
I'm bad at plenty of things. I'm not bad at math.
Here's the famous "birthday problem" - How many (randomly selected) people do you need in a room to have at least a 50% chance of at least 2 of them having the same birthdate (not year)? This a college statistics problem and the answer will definitely surprise you! If there is interest, move this to another thread!
183 ?
The thread was about 4 pages long when I opened it. Read it, did the SIMPLE math for the answer. Then skimmed the thread for the answer, confirming it.
Then noticed a ton of idiots still answering the quesiton. I find this hilarious and see this bumped everyday from some new dunce answering the question.
Gfinfla, the answer is actually 23 people. In fact, if you have 30 people in a room, chance rises to about 75% and with 50 people about 97% that two have the same birthday. This is explained in detail in a book "Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability" by Dr. Warren Weaver (1964, Dover Publications). You could use this information to make some easy in a bar where there are 30 (or more) people. Offer someone a bet that at least two have the same birthday - I guarantee someone (or many people) will take the bet. I should have started a new threadon this, this seems a little above the intelligence level here......
The thread was about 4 pages long when I opened it. Read it, did the SIMPLE math for the answer. Then skimmed the thread for the answer, confirming it.
Then noticed a ton of idiots still answering the quesiton. I find this hilarious and see this bumped everyday from some new dunce answering the question.
You keep playing with your titties you're going to get warts on your hands...didn't your mother ever tell you that?...lol
The thread was about 4 pages long when I opened it. Read it, did the SIMPLE math for the answer. Then skimmed the thread for the answer, confirming it.
Then noticed a ton of idiots still answering the quesiton. I find this hilarious and see this bumped everyday from some new dunce answering the question.
I left the thread and figuted it out.
I've had 2 college level calculus classes, an undergraduate statistics class, and a post graduate statistics class.
Tutored my sister through college level Algebra after being out of it for 15 years.
I'm bad at plenty of things. I'm not bad at math.
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