50 Challenging Problems in Probability

(Summary)
KeyWords Answer
4 (Number of Socks)
Red Socks and Black Socks
21 (If number of Black Socks is Even)
Elmer’s Tennis Career Champion- Father – Champion ( C-F-C)
A Three Man Jury Same Juries (One-man and Three Man Jury)
Die be thrown until one gets a 6 6
Common Carnival Game 9/256 or less than 1/28
Chuck –a – Luck 8%
Mr Brown Gain of 2.79 Dollars per 36 Trials
13 Spades 6.299 x 1012
The game of Craps / America’s gambling game 0.49293
An Urn Contains . . . Subjective Answer (Just read)
1 (Natural Choice)
Two Strangers / choose one positive whole numbers 3 (Popular Choice)
7 (Popular Choice)
Two Strangers / New York Empire State Building
Three Prisoners Subjective Answer (Just Read)
Cereal boxes 11.43 Box
𝟕
Eight Eligible Bachelors 7 or 7.47
𝟏𝟓
Tennis Tournament 4/7
King Arthur ¼
100 coins are tossed 0.07959
0.664 (At least 1 six when 6 dice are rolled)
Pepys wrote Newton 0.619 (At least 2 sixes when 12 dice are rolled)
0.597 (At least 3 sixes when 18 dice are rolled)
Three cornered Duel Miss
5/8 (without replacement)
Two Urns (101 red, 100 blacks)
21.5/36 (with replacement)
Election 8/10
Player A and B / Pennies (N/n) / (2)N
Marvin Subjective Answer (Just Read)
2/3 ( two points chosen at circumference)
If a chord is selected at random 0.866 (distance of the chord from the center)
0.75 (midpoint of the chord is evenly distributed)
23/144 (Best Answer)
Duel in the town / 5 A.M , 6 A.M
1/6 (Approximated)
0.366 (100 to a box)
King’s Minter Boxes 𝟏 n
(1- ) (100 replaced by n)
𝒏
Airborne Spores / Gelatin Plates 1 / √𝟐𝝅𝒎 , 0.4/√𝒎
 A bread Salesman 0.568
Two or more have the same birthday 23
Same birthday / 50-50 chance 253
𝐫(𝐫 − 𝟏)
Birthmate
𝟐
Erewhon / Holidays / 365 day year 364
107//243 (Probability of disaster)
Cliff
½ (Probability of Escaping)
Player M and Player N / Bankrupt 1/3
Roulette 18/38 > 7.23/57.7 bet all at once
Coin / landing on edge 0.354r
9 inch glass rod / Blue Dot 3 inches
52 playing cards / first ace 10.6th card
119
Locomotives
71
¼ L (Average length of smaller piece)
If a stick is Broken
0.386 (Calculus, average ratio)
A bar is broken (Smallest, middle sized, largest
2, 5, 11
piece)
Choose number of plays 10 Plays
Shuffled Deck / average number of matches 1
1
Typist / How many letters
0.368 ( probability of exactly r matches)
Wise Man Subjective Answer (Just Read)
Unbiased Instrument Subjective Answer (Just Read)
Quadratic Equation 1!
Particle / 50-50 chance of moving 1 step north or
1
south
Two dimensional Walk 0.239
Parallel Lines Between 0 and 𝝅/𝟐
𝟒/𝛑
Needle
𝟒𝐋/𝛑 (Arbitrary Length)
Two Urns (Some Black Some White) n < 2000

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