Determine the
probability that in a group of 5 people, at least two share the
same birth month. Assume that all 12 months are equally
likely to be someone’s birth month.
a) How many choices are there for the birth months of these 5
people (without any restrictions)?
b) How many choices are there for the 5 people to have all
different birth months?
c) Report the probability that in a group of 5 people, at least
two share the...
1) what's the probability that someone else has the
same birthday as you (assuming neither has a birthday in a leap
year).
2) what's the probability that someone in a room of 20
people that one them has the same birthday as you (also assuming
neither has a birthday in a leap year).
3) what's the probability that someone in a room of 20
people that there will be 3 people that have the same birthday
(assuming none have a...
There are 4 people in a room. What’s the probability that there
are two people born on the same day of the week? (Assume all
birthdays are independent and are uniformly distributed over the
seven days of the week.)
Two women in a group of 25 people shared the same name and the
same birthday. Discuss whether this is a surprising result. Do you
think it is more likely that you will find a pair of people in a
room of 25 who share a first name or a pair of people who share a
birthdate?
The birthday problem considers the probability that two people
in a group of a given size have the same birth date. We will assume
a 365 day year (no leap year birthdays).
Code set-up
Dobrow 2.28 provides useful R code for simulating the birthday
problem. Imagine we want to obtain an empirical estimate of the
probability that two people in a class of a given size will have
the same birth date. The code
trial = sample(1:365, numstudents, replace=TRUE)
simulates...
It is surprising (but
true) that if 23 people are in the same room, there is about a 50%
chance that at least two people will have the same birthday.
Suppose you want to estimate the probability that if 30 people are
in the same room, at least two of them will have the same birthday.
You can proceed as follows.
a.
Generate random birthdays for 30 different people. Ignoring the
possibility of a leap year, each person has a...
Birthday problem. Suppose that people enter a
room one at a time. How people must enter until two share a
birthday? Counterintuitively, after 23 people enter the room, there
is approximately a 50–50 chance that two share a birthday. This
phenomenon is known as the birthday problem or
birthday paradox.
Write a program Birthday.java that takes two integer
command-line arguments n and trials and performs
the following experiment, trials times:
Choose a birthday for the next person, uniformly at random...
a) The probability of getting exactly 2 sets of 3( of the same
kind) in a 7-card from a regular deck of cards is:
b)If you roll a fair, 6-sided die 5 times, the probability that the
sum of all5 rolls is greater than 7 is:
c) If you roll a 6-sided die 3 times, the probability that the
product of the three rolls will be even is:
d) if you flip a fair coin 10 times, the probability of...
Can two individuals share exactly the same environment? Please
briefly explain your answer. Based on what you know, which set of
individuals below would most likely have the most closely shared
environment. Please briefly explain your answer.
a. Mother and Daughter
b. One male friend and one female friend
c. Two female friends
d. Monzygotic twins