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The Andrew Monk marble challenge HERE seems to have excited you all. But having had a range of folks (Brian Kinane, Nigel Somerville, etc ,etc) try to explain it to me I sat down and thought about and agree that Mr Monk is correct this time. The answer is two thirds. As Monkey himself explains...
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Comments
wildrides
I keep my marbles down the back of the sofa ……….. will it still work if I get three sofa’s?
DeepPurple
Tom
What was really great about this puzzle was seeing the regulars like DrunkenSailor behaving like BBMs. Insisting that their wrong answer was right. Hilarious.
phil
No, I claim foul play
You cannot use
“You chose Bag A, first white marble. The other marble will be white”
You cannot use this one without including the probability of choosing the first ball from the chosen bag will be white.
We can all win if we make up the rules as we go along. Ever played a game where the game where has 2 starts
One more then I’m done, where is the entropy, it needs to be there. From entropy comes chance. We can all play the game when we have a sure winner,
Why I be-labour this point, when normally I just accept people disagree with me, is because unless you understand how this game is really played, you will never get your head around the fact that despite deflation reducing a companies supply costs implying a companies cashburn/costs will decrease, it really doesn’t work that way
Far from reducing costs, deflation inflates them, if you cannot work out this simple game, try getting your head around that one, which is probably why so many shareholders (including some big players) went into 2016 on the wrong side of the market. I didn’t,
I’m sticking to my guns on this one. The correct answer is 20%
Now I’m done