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Old 11-30-2001, 12:41 PM
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Duke Maverick worked for a packaging company. One day, Duke received four separate orders and accidentally mixed up the addresses, so he applied the address labels at random. What is the probability that exactly three packages were correctly labelled?

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Old 11-30-2001, 12:56 PM
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Old 11-30-2001, 01:08 PM
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Old 11-30-2001, 01:10 PM
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PHRED!!! What kind of answer is that?!?!?! LMBO I am looking for an explanation, please. Goober! LOL
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Old 11-30-2001, 01:14 PM
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Well, it's the same probability that all 4 are correct...
which, in theory sounds like it should be 1/4, but remembering back to statistics, that's not the way it works...
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Old 11-30-2001, 01:21 PM
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Well, it's the same probability that all 4 are correct...
which, in theory sounds like it should be 1/4, but remembering back to statistics, that's not the way it works...
LMBO!! I am totally confused now!
Here's the answer I have:

The probability is zero. If three packages were correctly labelled, so is the fourth.

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Old 11-30-2001, 01:26 PM
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LMBO!! I am totally confused now!
Here's the answer I have:

The probability is zero. If three packages were correctly labelled, so is the fourth.

What-Ever! LOL
Ahhh... the key word was "EXACTLY" 3 packages... Kinda skimmed over that (hince the reason why this is a riddle and not a math question)
you can't have excatly 3, because if 3 are right, 4 are right...
so my answer was kinda right..
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Old 11-30-2001, 03:28 PM
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