Glycereine
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I believe your probability for case 1 is the probability that a girl will win prior to the revelation that one of the children is a girl, not the probability that both children are girls after that revelation.
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The reason your method doesnt work is that only your "1/2" is of the original box, the "1/4" isnt valid because it's not half of half, it's half of (half minus 3). You cant just add in the 3's at the end because they change the amount each person took as well.
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Wouldn't matter, the act of throwing the oranges while in the air would make the force he exerts on the bridge more than equal to 60.4 kg when he lands. Additionally the act of jumping will transfer more force to the bridge (equal and opposite) than his normal body weight while walking would.
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I have to be honest and say the question was not really worded in a way to know what you were looking for. I do understand now but only after reading Semper Rideo's post above. The denomination method is the classic example of this type of problem.
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The last statement, of the red balls being 7 times the number of white balls eliminates the possibility of a non-zero answer.
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By Newbie I am guessing you mean Dragula?
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lol
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You are correct and I even tried your max number but screwed something up in checking it. So I agree with what you have
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Arg, you're right. However your answer isnt because there's no 8 in octal either...
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Even if there is equal probability for a ball to be white or some other color, it's not 1/3 because its not simply WN, WW, NN, it's WWWN, WWWW, WWNW, WWNN for the posibilities that still exist (out of the ones not already eliminated by the first 2 balls being white). And the assumption that there is an equal probability for the balls to be white or not-white assumes only 2 colors of balls exist and that they exist in equal numbers... So yeah, not "too complicated" but as complicated as it needs to be as mmiguel mentions. I honestly have to maintain it's flat out not solvable currently.
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Concur.
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Although you are correct, your post served no purpose except to "shoot down" the OP. There was no reason or need for it. Well this has already been solved now but I'd be interested to see if that's the only solution. I'll work on it at lunch.
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doh!
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I hope I did my math right...
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Cudos because you helped me
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Quoted to get the riddle back on this page. I think I'm stuck.
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That's because I think it's his homework
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