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Old 08-27-2005, 12:03 AM
gol4pro gol4pro is offline
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Default Re: Question for BruceZ (or others) regarding streaks

Change the situation around a little bit.

Say a computer generates a random number from 1-17. What's the chance that you would guess the number (with 1 guess each round) 14 times in a span of 100 guesses. This is really the same thing as the pocket pair question.

Seems to me like binomial theorem would work.

100c14*100c86*(1/17)^14*(16-17)^86

It's been a while since I took probability, so there may be a 1 - something in there somewhere, but is there any reason binomial therom doesn't work here?
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