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| Topic | Help me understand your reasoning in solving the following easy problem |
| iwantmyoldid 04/05/17 10:50:22 PM #67: | valid_is_noob posted... Which child is 100% female is irrelevant. Say you rolled 2 dice at the same time, whatever number is on the first has a 1/6 chance of being on the second. Now if i told you that one of the die had a 1 on it, does this change the number on the other? Prior/partial knowledge of a sample space affects probability. The rolled number wont change. Individually they have a 1/6 change but as a group, the probability is different (it would be some multiple of 1/36), now, knowing 1 of the dice restricts the space to a smaller subset of the original 36. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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