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Old March 6th, 2004, 04:17 PM
B J Conner
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Default Engineer- OR, Mathematician test

You allready have a pair that's close enough -why bother reaching in again.

"rb608" wrote in message
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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

Joe F.