Even Simple Probabilty Puzzles Can Be Tricky
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 by Mark [+/-] show/hide this excerptThe votes from Friday’s Simple Probability Puzzle are in. Here was the question:
Imagine there’s a completely random event with two outcomes, say flipping a coin. Each flip has an equal probability of landing heads or tails. Now imagine that we’re interested in seeing how long it takes to get a certain sequence of outcomes.
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