Colored balls in a bag

Colored balls in a bag

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THORNINYOURSIDE

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01 Oct 05

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Next problem:
How can you be so stupid?
Took him years of practice.

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leperchaun messiah

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05 Oct 05

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Next problem:
How can you be so stupid?
Sounds to me like you have issues. i only asked for somebody to "clean up" the original problem definition. Now all this tedious juvenile mudslinging.

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leperchaun messiah

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Originally posted by adramforall
Took him years of practice.
Years of practice doing what? Explain yourself man.

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Originally posted by eldragonfly
Years of practice doing what? Explain yourself man.
LOL! Classic.

EDIT: Welcome back, eldragonfly! ๐Ÿ˜€

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18 Nov 05

Originally posted by rheymans
You have a bag with 50 balls in it. 25 of the balls are white, and 25 are black. You draw two balls from the bag at a time. You don't know what color the balls are until you have removed them from the bag. If you draw two white balls, or two black balls, you place a white ball in the bag. If the draw is two balls of different color, you place a black ...[text shortened]... n white balls, and n black balls, when is the last ball white, and when is the last ball black?
green๐Ÿ˜€

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Fast above

Slow Below

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19 Nov 05
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Hmm. if you have only have 50 balls and they're all in the bag
and your first draw is 2 black balls, you are obliged to place
a white ball in the bag.
However the only white balls are in the bag and the problem
states that you must draw two balls at a time. Thus putting forward
the possibility of drawing another 2 black balls.

The probability of this happening until 24 black balls have been
removed from the bag should be taken into account.


edit. If you have a green ball in one hand and a red one in the
other, what do you have?
ans. The incredible hulk at your mercy

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19 Nov 05

Originally posted by Thequ1ck

However the only white balls are in the bag a
The problem doesn't make this claim.