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(Message started by: bee-bee on Sep 26^th, 2003, 1:20pm)

Title: average arms
Post by bee-bee on Sep 26^th, 2003, 1:20pm

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

Title: Re: average arms
Post by wowbagger on Sep 26^th, 2003, 2:11pm

Very likely.

bee-bee, could you please remove your post in the duplicate thread (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1064607355)? 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 (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=what_am_i;action=display;num=1064118144).

Title: Re: average arms
Post by Icarus on Sep 26^th, 2003, 3:18pm

It's taken care of.

Title: Re: average arms
Post by beee-beee on Sep 26^th, 2003, 4:27pm

Thanks icarus. ;D

Title: Re: average arms
Post by towr on Sep 27^th, 2003, 9:51am

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. [hide] since some people have lost one or more arms, the average lies under two, and thus the majority of people have more[/hide]