Thread: Extremely Difficult Probability Problem
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Old 10-12-2005, 01:56 AM
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Default Re: Extremely Difficult Probability Problem
I did a calculation which appears to be the same as what David said and I got something like 7.04%.

I then coded it up in MATLAB and ran a zillion trials and got 6.99% empirically. Standard error was .048% so it appears reasonable.

The answer is 7%. The most likely was that 8 of 10 are white.
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