4/27/2008: Probability in Action (Andrea Brose)Paradoxes! Paradoxes: well known ones such as the famous Monty Hall, Birthday, Daughter-Sons, Socks and Murder Problems, to lesser known ones.
(You flip three nickels, at least two land with the same side up, and there is a 50-50 chance that the third shows Thomas Jefferson or his Monticello. Thus P(all nickels land with the same side up)=0.5, right?)
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