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Topic	Easy probability question. A guy has two white socks and two pink socks.
Questionmarktarius 04/20/17 10:22:45 PM #28:	streamofthesky posted... If you pick pink, you have 1/3 of getting pink again. If you pick white, you have 1/3 of getting white again. It's 1/3 regardless. If you grab two at once, like TC heavily implied, the probability is 50%. XX XY YX YY Yes XY and YX are functionally identical, but permutations are important for the math, as it's two possible occurrences of XY. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:877599165] in Easy proba... [t:75260768]...</cite> <quote><cite>streamofthesky posted...</cite> <quote>If you pick pink, you have 1/3 of getting pink again. If you pick white, you have 1/3 of getting white again. It's 1/3 regardless.</quote> If you grab two at once, like TC heavily implied, the probability is 50%. XX XY YX YY Yes XY and YX are functionally identical, but permutations are important for the math, as it's two possible occurrences of XY.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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