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My aunt says "I hate probability! Ask them this: How many ways can you take six blue marbles out of a bag with 12 blue marbles in it without replacement? Huh? How many!"
I was like ... um one.
But then she went off on me and said it was 362,880.
I think the trouble is with the way the problem is worded. But I run in to this a lot with these kinds of problems. Compared to other areas of math probability is murky when it comes to wording. Why?
I was like ... um one.
But then she went off on me and said it was 362,880.
I think the trouble is with the way the problem is worded. But I run in to this a lot with these kinds of problems. Compared to other areas of math probability is murky when it comes to wording. Why?