Guest Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Five minutes after midnight of April 13th, 2004, a heavy rain fell in Melbourne. What is the probability that, 72 hours later, it would be sunny there? Explain answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Five minutes after midnight of April 13th, 2004, a heavy rain fell in Melbourne. What is the probability that, 72 hours later, it would be sunny there? Explain answer. Zero. It would be midnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Aaryan Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 O% chance. It would be 5 minutes after midnight on April 15th, 2004. It is not sunny at midnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 chance--------0% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 superprismatic Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 Five minutes after midnight of April 13th, 2004, a heavy rain fell in Melbourne. What is the probability that, 72 hours later, it would be sunny there? Explain answer. 11/24 because that is the portion of the day which Melbourne is in daylight on that day. The time specified for the heavy shower could be anywhere in the world where it was 5 minutes past midnight on April 13th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fabpig Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 (edited) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/April_13,_2004 Super P I've seen your posts and answers and been awestruck.....but you've got to assume that the downpour was Melbourne time...(?!) Edited January 24, 2011 by fabpig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 11/24 because that is the portion of the day which Melbourne is in daylight on that day. The time specified for the heavy shower could be anywhere in the world where it was 5 minutes past midnight on April 13th. Doesn't that assume it's definitely sunny during the daylight hours? Because there was significant cloud cover for most of the 15th and 16th of April 04: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=melbourne+weather+4/13/2004-4/16/2004 Anyway, the question is flawed, because it wasn't raining on 4/13/04. So if "was raining" actually means "was not raining", then "was" means "was not", so it "was" sunny at 00:05 on 4/16/2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 superprismatic Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 Doesn't that assume it's definitely sunny during the daylight hours? Because there was significant cloud cover for most of the 15th and 16th of April 04: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=melbourne+weather+4/13/2004-4/16/2004 Anyway, the question is flawed, because it wasn't raining on 4/13/04. So if "was raining" actually means "was not raining", then "was" means "was not", so it "was" sunny at 00:05 on 4/16/2004. You're right. I lived in Melbourne for three years and there was significant cloud cover for most of the fall and winter (March thru September) there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Five minutes after midnight of April 13th, 2004, a heavy rain fell in Melbourne. What is the probability that, 72 hours later, it would be sunny there? Explain answer.
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