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^ It depends are you on a treadmill when you make the choice?

 
IlPadrino said:
In other words, what are your odds of winning if you switch your choice?
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Hmm, let's see: at first you had a 33.33 chance that you guessed it right, but now you have better odds with a 50% chance so you should choose again.

Or else, you should not choose again since your first 33% chance multiplied again by taking a second 50% chance statistically yields only a 15% chance of being able to guess the right door.

Except that you really only had a 50% chance to start with, since you already had a 100% chance that Monty Hall was going to throw out one of the goat doors, so it doesn't matter which door you picked. Aw geez, where's my scotch bottle?

If anyone starts using the words "Airplane" and "Treadmill" in the same post following this, there's going to be a whupping. :chair:

Summon the :bann: :bash:

 
Wolverine said:
Hmm, let's see: at first you had a 33.33 chance that you guessed it right, but now you have better odds with a 50% chance so you should choose again.
Or else, you should not choose again since your first 33% chance multiplied again by taking a second 50% chance statistically yields only a 15% chance of being able to guess the right door.

Except that you really only had a 50% chance to start with, since you already had a 100% chance that Monty Hall was going to throw out one of the goat doors, so it doesn't matter which door you picked. Aw geez, where's my scotch bottle?

If anyone starts using the words "Airplane" and "Treadmill" in the same post following this, there's going to be a whupping. :chair:

Summon the :bann: :bash:
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Here's one for you...I got a really good deal on a treadmill on one of those online auction sites, but the owner didn't want to ship it, so I have to go pick it up. It is located 2,000 miles away. Should I use a car to pick it up or use an airplane? :poking:

 
speaking of goats in car terms, would a standard model goat be a................

goatse?

 
Wolverine said:
Hmm, let's see: at first you had a 33.33 chance that you guessed it right, but now you have better odds with a 50% chance so you should choose again.
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Nope...

Wolverine said:
Or else, you should not choose again since your first 33% chance multiplied again by taking a second 50% chance statistically yields only a 15% chance of being able to guess the right door.
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Unh-uh... (wow... that's written an awful lot like uh-huh!)

Wolverine said:
Except that you really only had a 50% chance to start with, since you already had a 100% chance that Monty Hall was going to throw out one of the goat doors, so it doesn't matter which door you picked. Aw geez, where's my scotch bottle?
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No...

 
IlPadrino said:
How about this one... though maybe we've written about it before.
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

In other words, what are your odds of winning if you switch your choice?
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2/3.

Your first choice had a 1/3 chance of getting the car, leaving a 2/3 chance of not getting it. Since the game show host shows you one goat door, the 2/3 chance is assigned to the remaining door.

Here are other explainations, all leaving a 2/3 chance:

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.monty.hall.html

 
dude said:
ok.... so... how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
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I think that the woodchuck could chuck as much wood as he wanted! By the way what is a wood chuck? Is it like a gopher? This is difficult to question answer. The amount of wood that woodchucks would chuck on a given day varies greatly with the individual woodchuck. According to a Wall Street Journal article, New York State wildlife expert Richard Thomas found that a woodchuck could chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. Thomas reasoned that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck an amount equal to 700 pounds.

Some say it depends on three factors:

The woodchuck's desire to chuck said wood.

The woodchuck's need to chuck the aforementioned wood.

The woodchuck's ability to chuck the wood.

Others say:

He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

If he could chuck wood, the woodchuck would chuck as much as he could!

A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

A woodchuck would chuck all the wood that the woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

If a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would and should chuck wood. But if woodchucks can't chuck wood, they shouldn't and wouldn't chuck wood. Though were I a woodchuck, and I chucked wood, I would chuck wood with the best woodchucks that chucked wood.

If a woodchuck could chuck wood, then s/he'd chuck all the wood, s/he'd chuck and chuck and chuck and chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

It would chuck the amount of wood that she sells seashells on the seashore divided by how many pickles Peter Piper picks.

One quarter of a sycamore if you give him a quarter for every quarter of the sycamore he cut.

It might depend on how many female woodchucks were present. Or, it could depend on whether the woodchuck's mother-in-law was around or not. If she was, he'd be chucking all day. If not, he'd be watching the football game.

Some maintain that woodchucks could not and would not chuck wood at all.

It depends on how good his dentures are!

A woodchuck, would chuck, as much wood, as a woodchuck, could chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood. But unfortunately, woodchucks do not chuck wood.

About 5.72 fluid litres of wood

About as many boards as the Mongol hoards would hoard if the Mongol hordes did hoard boards.

Um....... 23????

Tons. More than you can count. Honestly. No one can chuck more would than a woodchuck.

If the woodchucks name was Maurice, then it could chuck all the wood that it wants to. However, if its name is Frank, no chucking would be for it.

Due to the average size of a wood chuck and the general density of wood (not including cork) if a wood chuck could chuck wood it would probably get through about 6.573 pounds per day, assuming the wood chuck is functioning correctly.

Using the formula: (W + I) * C where W = the constant of wood, which is well known to be 61, as agreed in many scientific circles. I = the variable in this equation, and stands for the word "if" from the original problem. As there are three circumstances, with 0 equaling the chance that the woodchuck cannot chuck wood, 1 being the theory that the woodchuck can chuck wood but chooses not to, and 2 standing for the probability that the woodchuck can and will chuck wood, we clearly must choose 2 for use in this equation. C = the constant of Chuck Norris, whose presence in any problem involving the word chuck must be there, is well known to equal 1.1 of any known being, therefore the final part of this calculation is 1.1. As is clear, this appears to give the answer of (61 + 2) * 1.1 = (63) * 1.1 = 69.3. However, Chuck Norris' awesome roundhouse kick declares that all decimal points cannot be used in formulas such as this, and so it must be rounded to the final solution of 69 units of wood.

How Chuck Norris got involved

A woodchuck would only chuck as much would as Chuck Norris would allow it to, because the woodchuck shares Chuck's name. Therefore, Chuck must punish it and make it chuck as much wood as Chuck can. So, a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as Chuck could.

None cuz a wood chuck cant chuck wood! :p

Approximately 3.9675 pounds every 5.6843 seconds. So there.

2.865 lbs every 11.3686 Seconds?

About 15 pounds a minute.

i speak differently i say WHAT DOES YOUR QUESTION HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING! and btw its 84% lol

it depends how good his dentures are!!!

As much as he needed to be satisfied

But the true jokey answer, as told by my grandfather is: As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

a woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

Are you kidding? Everybody knows a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

But it definitely couldn't chuck Chuck Norris.

 
a woodchuck throws lots of dirt because it is in his interest to find food. to say that he would throw a similar weight of wood does not take motivational factors into account.

 
dude said:
that made my brain hurt.
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It's your own fault...you asked.

cement said:
a woodchuck throws lots of dirt because it is in his interest to find food. to say that he would throw a similar weight of wood does not take motivational factors into account.
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The woodchuck could concievably be chucking wood to make his home.

dude said:
why are we "motivating" the woodchucks "wood"?
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Again, you're the sicko that asked.

 

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