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  • Sep 6, 2007, 10:35 AM
    carmen120
    probability of people
    I have a challenge to find the following:
    How many people do you need, to have a 50% or better chance of finding two persons with the same birthday (month/day)?
  • Sep 6, 2007, 10:37 AM
    carmen120
    How many people do you need, to have 50% or better chance of finding two persons with the same birthdat (month/day)?
  • Sep 6, 2007, 11:25 AM
    Capuchin
    the probability that 2 people in a group of n people will have the same birthday is



    This is 50.7% for n = 23.
  • Sep 6, 2007, 12:02 PM
    carmen120
    probability of people
    I don't understand the value of n in the equation so that I can compute it
  • Sep 6, 2007, 12:14 PM
    Capuchin
    I told you what n is in my answer. Please read it again.

    The rate button is for indicating an answer as correct or incorrect. My answer was not incorrect. Did you think that replying in the thread and EMAILING ME was not enough?
  • Sep 8, 2007, 10:55 AM
    s_cianci
    The 'n' in Capuchin's formula is the number of people in the group in question.

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