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bee-bee
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average arms
« on: Sep 26th, 2003, 1:20pm » |
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What is the probability that the next person you meet has an above average number of arms.
Is it
Impossible / Unlikely / Likely / Very Likely / Certain
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wowbagger
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Re: average arms
« Reply #1 on: Sep 26th, 2003, 2:11pm » |
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Very likely.
bee-bee, could you please remove your post in the duplicate thread? If you're not quick enough, one of the moderators will surely take care of this. 
A more or less related What-am-I riddle can be found here.
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Re: average arms
« Reply #2 on: Sep 26th, 2003, 3:18pm » |
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It's taken care of.
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Thanks icarus. 
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Re: average arms
« Reply #4 on: Sep 27th, 2003, 9:51am » |
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It depends what you count as 'having arms', if you count a regular pregnant woman as having four arms (two of her own, two of her baby), then it get's tricky.
If there isn't any case where you would count any more than two arms per person, then it's easy. since some people have lost one or more arms, the average lies under two, and thus the majority of people have more
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