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#1 2012-02-09 16:05:01
- juantheron
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word probability
The letters of the word ASSASSINATION are arranged at random. What is the probability of a getting NO TWO As are coming together
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#2 2012-02-09 19:15:07
- bobbym
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Re: word probability
Hi juantheron;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#3 2012-02-10 01:24:25
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Re: word probability
Thanks bobbym but here no two
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#4 2012-02-10 01:26:15
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Re: word probability
You mean "AS"?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#5 2012-02-10 04:33:49
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Re: word probability
Yes
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#6 2012-02-10 04:42:20
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Re: word probability
Hi,
AS in that order? Is "SA" allowed?
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#7 2012-02-10 05:36:08
- anonimnystefy
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Re: word probability
hi juantheron
could you post the exact wording of the problem?from what you posted it seems more logical to look for the probability that all of the letters A are separate.
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#8 2012-02-10 06:52:52
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Re: word probability
Yes, it does appear that 2 As means AA. Just looks like someone left out the apostrophe.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#9 2012-02-10 08:36:11
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Re: word probability
we shall find out if juan answers.
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#10 2012-02-10 08:38:55
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Re: word probability
Personally, I am hoping for the AA, since I already answered it and it is easier than the AS.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#11 2012-02-10 08:53:39
- anonimnystefy
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Re: word probability
me too! 
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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