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Old March 6th, 2004, 04:43 PM
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Default Engineer- OR, Mathematician test

Lat705 wrote:
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?


I'd like to know who the hell has 50 pairs of socks -- all red and
green, no less. Santa Claus?

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