toss 3 coins. what's the probability of at least two heads?
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How many 5 card poker hands are there that make 4 of a kind.
a sub fires its rocket at the enemy ship. Each rocket has 1/3 chance of hitting. What is the chance the ship is hit?
You and I are going to play a game where we alternate saying a number. The rules are that the starting person must say a number between 1 and 10, and then the next person can say any number that is between 1 and 10 higher than the previous number -- i.e., if I start and say 5, you can then say anything between 6 and 15. The goal of the game is for you to say the number 40. What is your strategy and why?
6 people sitting at a round table. What is a probability that they are in height order?
"You are a player in a basketball team.Your team loses with 2 points. You have the ball and the game ends in 3 seconds. You have 2 choices. Pass the ball for a 3 point shot or pass the ball for a 2 point shot. The 3 point shooter has 37% probability hitting the three (and winning the game) and the 2 point shooter has a probability of 77% probability hitting the 2 (and tie the game). In overtime there is 50-50% chance of winning/losing. What do you do and why?"
I own a car worth an amount between 0 and 1000 dollars. You can make a single bid on this car. If you bid higher than the value of the car, you pay that much and get the car. If you bid lower than the value, you don't get the car. 1)how much do you bid 2)how much do you stand to lose should you get the car (or something like this) 3) you have a mechanic who can increase the value of the car to a constant multiple of the cars current value. How much should this constant be in order to make bidding worthwhile...
A tosses n+1 coins. B tosses n coins. B wins if he has at least as many heads as A. What is the probability that B wins?
Best of 7 game series between two teams, A and B. You get even odds on both teams for each game and you have to work out how much to bet on each game so that you win $100 if A wins the series and lose $100 if B wins the series and specifically how much you bet on the first game.
A survey is given to all passengers on a number of different planes. The survey asks each person how full their plane was. The people answer honestly. If 50% of people claim that their plane was 80% full, while the other 50% claim that their plane was 20% full, how full was the average plane?
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