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Fun Mathy Type Riddles
#81
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 3:51 pm)Hammy Wrote:
(October 17, 2017 at 3:41 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: But I thought we knew we were on a goat... Is the damn door open or closed? lol Are we saying the last third is the option to stay where we are?

No we don't know if we're on a goat or a car. One other door is opened and revealed to be a goat. We are asked if we want to switch to the third and final door or stay on the first door.

Ohhhh see this whole time I must have read it wrong because I was under the idea that the door we picked was opened and revealed a goat. So we still don't know what is behind our door then...
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#82
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 4:16 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote:
(October 17, 2017 at 3:51 pm)Hammy Wrote: No we don't know if we're on a goat or a car. One other door is opened and revealed to be a goat. We are asked if we want to switch to the third and final door or stay on the first door.

Ohhhh see this whole time I must have read it wrong because I was under the idea that the door we picked was opened and revealed a goat. So we still don't know what is behind our door then...


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#83
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 4:16 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote:
(October 17, 2017 at 3:51 pm)Hammy Wrote: No we don't know if we're on a goat or a car. One other door is opened and revealed to be a goat. We are asked if we want to switch to the third and final door or stay on the first door.

Ohhhh see this whole time I must have read it wrong because I was under the idea that the door we picked was opened and revealed a goat. So we still don't know what is behind our door then...


Yeah the problem states that:

1)  You pick a door - you do not know what is behind it.
2)  The game host picks one of the other two doors which you did not pick, and shows you what is behind it.  (He always picks a goat of course.)
3)  Then he offers you the choice between staying with your original pick (whose contents you still don't know) - or - the one remaining, unopened door (whose contents you also do not know).
4)  So do you stay with your original choice or switch?

You have to know that there is always only one door with a good prize behind it.  So the game host can always show you a 'goat' (bad prize) behind one of the two doors you didn't pick.


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#84
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 8:07 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(October 17, 2017 at 4:16 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Ohhhh see this whole time I must have read it wrong because I was under the idea that the door we picked was opened and revealed a goat. So we still don't know what is behind our door then...


Yeah the problem states that:

1)  You pick a door - you do not know what is behind it.
2)  The game host picks one of the other two doors which you did not pick, and shows you what is behind it.  (He always picks a goat of course.)
3)  Then he offers you the choice between staying with your original pick (whose contents you still don't know) - or - the one remaining, unopened door (whose contents you also do not know).
4)  So do you stay with your original choice or switch?

You have to know that there is always only one door with a good prize behind it.  So the game host can always show you a 'goat' (bad prize) behind one of the two doors you didn't pick.



Even professional mathematicians can mix this up. A bunch of them chewed Marylin Vos Savant up over her (correct) analysis many a moon ago, when she published it in her "Ask Marylin" column.
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#85
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
That's right. They weren't very nice to her at all. It really speaks to the strength of that intuition that the probability essentially resets given the new information.
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#86
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
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So, were do U,V, W, X, Y and Z go? Above or below the line ????
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#87
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 18, 2017 at 12:12 am)vorlon13 Wrote: AEFHIKLMNT
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So, were do U,V, W, X, Y and Z go?  Above or below the line ????


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#88
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
I demand more brain teasers. Tease my brain. Tenderly.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#89
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 18, 2017 at 12:12 am)vorlon13 Wrote: AEFHIKLMNT
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BCDGJOPQRS


So, were do U,V, W, X, Y and Z go?  Above or below the line ????


If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#90
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 18, 2017 at 11:03 am)Fireball Wrote:
(October 18, 2017 at 12:12 am)vorlon13 Wrote: AEFHIKLMNT
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BCDGJOPQRS


So, were do U,V, W, X, Y and Z go?  Above or below the line ????



Never in a million years would I have got that! lol good job.
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”

Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
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