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#1 2007-02-04 16:46:38
- Jai Ganesh
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Probability
Which number (that is, total) is most likely to appear when four dice(s) are cast?
Try answering orally first.
Later, check with paper and pencil, if necessary, to find out whther what you had initially in your mind is right?
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#2 2007-02-04 19:37:51
- Toast
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Re: Probability
I guessed , dunno why. I'll check it later...
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#3 2007-02-05 01:38:13
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Re: Probability
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#4 2007-02-05 02:01:47
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Probability
I haven't worked it out yet, on paper...but I thought the same way mathsyperson did...and in all likelyhood, that is the right answer 
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#5 2007-02-20 09:34:40
- pi man
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Re: Probability
Last edited by pi man (2007-02-20 09:35:10)
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#6 2007-02-21 08:58:22
- Kurre
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Re: Probability
i guessed on:
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#7 2007-02-21 10:56:43
- MathsIsFun
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Re: Probability
Straight of the top of my head:
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#8 2007-02-21 16:58:45
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Probability
Very logical! Very good thinking, MathsIsFun!
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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