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Old March 7th, 2004, 08:45 PM
riverman
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Default Engineer- OR, Mathematician test


"Lat705" 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?


Everyone missed the obvious. 0%. If you have three socks, you don't have a
pair.

--riverman
(Glad to help)