Life gives probability lessons
Probability is a tough cookie to crack. Sometimes actual incidents make you curious and makes you wrack your brain and revise your probability lessons. Like the famous incident of Thomas Hardy spotting a taxi number while playing cards yesterday something happened which made me wonder and calculate the probability of what had transpired after the events took place. Let me replay the exciting turn of events !! There is a game called 5 3 2 played in 3 players who 10 get cards each After a game is over if you make more hands than your designated ones you get to choose that many cards from opponents cards next time So here is turn of events Game over I made 5 ( had to make 2) while my opponent made 2( had to make 5) so I got to pick 3 cards from opponents before next game starts Game 2 begins cards are shuffled and opponent gets her 10 cards and gets a chance to see them if they want to arrange in any order and keep them down . Chance 1. I call out a random number 3rd f...