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Anonymous Fri 06 Sep 21:48:56 2019 No.10950542 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>10950551 >>10950559 >>10950574

Asking out of pure curiosity. Does the phrasing imply that the answer would be 1/2 or 1/8?

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Anonymous Fri 06 Sep 2019 21:50:59 No.10950551 Report

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>>10950542
>did author of sentence had this in mind or that
not science or math

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Anonymous Fri 06 Sep 2019 21:52:40 No.10950558 Report

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for me the questions seems to aim toward conditional probability P(h3|h1,h2) which is P(h) due to conditional independence zhus 1/2

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Anonymous Fri 06 Sep 2019 21:52:51 No.10950559 Report

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>>10950542
1/8 is the probability of having 3 heads in a row
1/2 is the probability of having 3 heads in a row when you know that the first 2 flips here heads
what do you think the phrasing implies ?

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Anonymous Fri 06 Sep 2019 21:55:52 No.10950574 Report

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>>10950542
50/50

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