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I think it's easier to think of YOU having to pick doors twice instead of your friend picking a door the first time. Find the probability of you picking a car on the SECOND time. Then you can draw a simple possibility tree and multiply the probabilities to come to a conclusion.
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I think it's easier to think of YOU having to pick doors twice instead of your friend picking a door the first time. Find the probability of you picking a car on the SECOND time. Then you can draw a simple possibility tree and multiply the probabilities to come to a conclusion.... and the conclusion i got was that it made no difference who picked first
  
 
Correct me if I'm doing this wrong =)
 
Correct me if I'm doing this wrong =)

Latest revision as of 16:21, 14 September 2008

I think it's easier to think of YOU having to pick doors twice instead of your friend picking a door the first time. Find the probability of you picking a car on the SECOND time. Then you can draw a simple possibility tree and multiply the probabilities to come to a conclusion.... and the conclusion i got was that it made no difference who picked first

Correct me if I'm doing this wrong =)

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