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alexgriva [62]
3 years ago
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You and your 8 friends decide to draw straws for a prize. There are 8 long straws and 1 short straw. Describe how the theoretica

l probability of drawing the short straw changes as each friend picks a straw.
Mathematics
1 answer:
OleMash [197]3 years ago
5 0
To start off with, the probability to draw the short straw is 1/9 and each time someone picks the long straw the denominator (the 9) decreases by one which means that the odds of someone picking it get higher.
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