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May 28th, 2005, 12:17 PM
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a Probability Teaser
Ok, my friends and I have puzzled over this for a bit and failed to come to a satisfactory answer.
There's a one hundred sided die. The chances of it landing on any number from 1 to 100 is 100 to 1.
The chances of getting a 97 are 1/100.
So if the die is rolled 100 times, what are the chances that a 97 will have come up? It cant be 100 x 1/100 because that would be 1 and therefore a certainty, which it cant be.
Any ideas?
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