On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:42:29 GMT, "rb608"
wrote:

"Lat705" wrote in message
...
To tell whether a person is an engineer, or a mathematics/ Operations
Reasearch
type, give them the following problem:

A box contained 50 red socks and 50 green socks. You withdrew two socks;
one
green and one red. What is the probability of having a matching pair on
the
next withdrawal?

49/97

Maybe it's too early in the morning and I'm missing an otherwise obvious
pitfall, but I'd have said 98-98...Or, "1"...

/daytripper (now awaiting the derisive laughter ;-)