(ot) car length poll

[smithma7 at yahoo.com (Mike Smith)]

That's more like it.

Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com> wrote:IIRC, the formula is that since there are two possibilities (heads, tails)
and three equally likely possibilities for each to occur, the probable
number of permutations is 2^3 (to the third power) or 8. Therefore, the
probability is one in eight or 12.5% of the time.

Scirocco content: I'm in a deep funk that I have yet to begin working on my
Mk1 and it makes me worry that I'm almost as excited about that as my son
about to be born!!! :-/ (well, not exactly... ;)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Bureau" 
To: "Mike Smith" ; "car" 
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: (ot) car length poll


> easy answer, since the odds of a coin flip are 50% heads or tails, there
fore the possibility of 3 coins landing on either side remains 50%,
> now the odds that all 3 coins land on one common side (heads or tails)
beleive it or not remains 50% (quantity of coins does not change the odds)
>
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> Mike Smith wrote:
> As someone was complaining about no homework, soo...
>
> If you flip a coin, it has a 1/2 probability of landing heads up. If you
flip 3 coins, what's the probability of all 3 landing heads up? Please
supply formula as well as answer.
>
> Mike
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