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To: Red Badger

If only 36% can “solve” this problem, that is barely more than one would expect from pure guesswork. More like 4% actually “solve” it, and of the remaining 96% one third, or 32% of the total population just make a lucky guess.

Solve

(1-p)/3 + p = 36% for p

p = 4%

Where p = percentage who actually solve it,
(1-p)/3 = percentage who make a lucky guess.

The more important question, of course, is, “Do you want to pick door No. 2?”


63 posted on 11/23/2020 10:03:15 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You keep your p to yourself.


65 posted on 11/23/2020 10:04:30 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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