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  1. Brandonb

    So the foreigner will die or the person will die?
  2. Brandonb

    you got it! the general ratio remains the same!
  3. Brandonb

    "Bobby put a number of different colored balls..."
  4. Brandonb

    they all sit in different rows, lol
  5. Brandonb

    This is similar and probably easier than the last one. Bobby put a number of different colored balls (ex. 2 blue: 5 red: 1 purple: 7 green...) in a box. After a while he added 20 new balls (all of the same color as one color already in the box) to the box. However, the addition of the new balls did not change the general ratio of colors in the box. How many different colors of balls are in the box? And how many of each color were in the box originally? Hopefully I have done a better job this time.
  6. Brandonb

    Ah, I see the problem, thank you. I'll make another one that is phrased correctly. well done!
  7. Brandonb

    Sorry, using that reasoning, in the origin each of the 2s would have a 10% chance of being drawn, and the 12 would have a 60% chance of being drawn. Once the 20 are added to one of the 2s then there are 22 of that color in the box (obviously). This means that the remaining 2s have a 5% chance of being drawn, the 12 now have a 30% chance of being drawn, and the 22 have a 55% chance of being drawn. It's not even close. Not by a long shot.
  8. Brandonb

    I can find more....but this was the first I tried that fit my equation. Hmm, maybe I wasn't clear in my original post... The object is to achieve a probability after the 20 balls were added, that is identical to the probability before the 20 balls were added. Which I believe there is only one answer. Your response allows for 3 comparable probabilities for only after the balls were added, regardless of the original probability before the 20 were added.
  9. Brandonb

    define disturbed
  10. Brandonb

    Well of course, but that's why I said "Billy put a number of different colored balls... in a box."
  11. Brandonb

    The example in the question is merely an example nothing more Also, please post your answers in a "Spoiler"
  12. Brandonb

    you just hurted my head
  13. Just about any ground has water in it unless it's dry rock. Hmm, what if the lake is under ground?
  14. Brandonb

    I misinterpreted brhan's "colored ball" post and accidentally came up with this. I believe it is much simpler but still entertaining. Billy put a number of different colored balls (ex. 2 blue, 5 red, 1 purple, 7 green...) in a box. After a while he added 20 more balls (all of the same color as one color already in the box) to the box, and the addition of the new balls did not change probability of drawing two balls of the same color (with replacement). How many different colors of balls are in the box? And how many of each color were in the box originally?
  15. Lets say I'm the user, does the virtual world act towards me in a perfectly identical and simultaneous manner that the real world does? Ex. If I called for a pizza in the real world, and then entered the virtual world, would the pizza guy (a completely unaware and unaffected third party) still deliver the pizza in my virtual reality? And would he interact with me in the exact same way at the exact same time that my body is up and interacting with him in the real world? If I enter the virtual world, does my body remain seated in the real world? Or does it get up and walk around and interact with the virtual world exactly as I am up and walking around and interacting with the virtual world?
  16. Brandonb

    Most everything has been thoroughly answered at this point but I can add to #6 and #7 6. What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? 7. I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet off the ground. What am I?
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