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- From: cooper@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (Ralph 'Hairy' Moonen)
- Subject: Apology
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.103942.13902@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:39:42 GMT
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- I apologise to whoever I have flamed for claiming the answer to be 1/3 in
- the question *At least one of the two kids of a family is a girl, what is
- the chance that both are girls*. However, the answer to the question
- *Given that one of the two kids of a family is a girl, what is the chance
- that the other is also a girl* stays 1/2 .
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- The dice problem I had right all along.
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- --Ralph
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