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(from vos~Savant<ref group="Notes" >M. vos Savant, ''Parade Magazine'', 3 March 1996, p. 14.</ref>) A reader of Marilyn vos Savant's column wrote in with the following question: | |||
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The following question was asked of a class of students. “I was driving to | The following question was asked of a class of students. “I was driving to | ||
school today, and one of my tires went flat. Which tire do you think it was?” | school today, and one of my tires went flat. Which tire do you think it was?” | ||
The responses were as follows: right front, 58 | The responses were as follows: right front, 58%, left front, 11%, right rear, | ||
18 | 18%, left rear, 13%. Suppose that this distribution holds in the general population, | ||
and assume that the two test-takers are randomly chosen from the general population. What | and assume that the two test-takers are randomly chosen from the general population. What | ||
is the probability that they will give the same answer to the second question? | is the probability that they will give the same answer to the second question? | ||
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(from vos~Savant[Notes 1]) A reader of Marilyn vos Savant's column wrote in with the following question:
My dad heard this story on the radio. At Duke University, two students had received A's in chemistry all semester. But on the night before the final exam, they were partying in another state and didn't get back to Duke until it was over. Their excuse to the professor was that they had a flat tire, and they asked if they could take a make-up test. The professor agreed, wrote out a test and sent the two to separate rooms to take it. The first question (on one side of the paper) was worth 5 points, and they answered it easily. Then they flipped the paper over and found the second question, worth 95 points: `Which tire was it?' What was the probability that both students would say the same thing? My dad and I think it's 1 in 16. Is that right?”
- Is the answer 1/16?
- The following question was asked of a class of students. “I was driving to school today, and one of my tires went flat. Which tire do you think it was?” The responses were as follows: right front, 58%, left front, 11%, right rear, 18%, left rear, 13%. Suppose that this distribution holds in the general population, and assume that the two test-takers are randomly chosen from the general population. What is the probability that they will give the same answer to the second question?
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