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I already know the answer (In fact, after watching 21 I read the entire Wikipedia article of this problem), so I'll leave it to another person to solve it




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@nordlead : I'm not giving up on your problem. I've been checking this thread from work and answering in my breaks but your problem needs more than the 5-10 minutes I can spare throughout the day.



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the last one only took me like 2 minutes to solve, but probability is one of my favorite subjects! Granted, the VGC problem is actually very very tough, but it is more than just a puzzle, it is really a small example of the difference between humans and machines, theroms, axims and all sorts of wonderful math topics.

I'd post easier ones, but they seem so obvious to me that I don't feel like it would be a challenge to anyone.




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nordlead said:
the last one only took me like 2 minutes to solve, but probability is one of my favorite subjects!

I'd post easier ones, but they seem so obvious to me that I don't feel like it would be a challenge to anyone.

Impossible it takes more than 2 minutes to read!! Just kidding.... I'll read it now!

 



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nordlead said:

Since no one else seems to be posting these, i'll post another. This one is long, but is very interesting

EDIT: Before I give the answer to my previous hard problem, I'm trying to find the actual name of it. I was told it was a famous puzzle, but I can't remember the name of it.

A young prince and princess had fallen in love, but the girl's father, a bitter old King, opposed the marriage. So the King contrived to lure the Prince into a trap. In front of his entire Court — nobles, clergy, jesters and even scullery-maids — he challenged the Prince to prove his love in a highly unusual and dangerous game.

"The Princess," said the King, "is behind one of these three doors I have placed in front of you. Behind the other two are hungry tigers who will most certainly eat you for dinner. If you prove your love by picking the correct door, you may marry my daughter!"

"And just to demonstrate that I'm not a bitter old man," said the King (who secretly suspected that's exactly what everyone thought of him), "I will help you. Once you make your choice, but before you open the door, I will show you a tiger behind one of the other doors. And then," intoned the King magnanimously, "you may pick again!"

The court broke out into polite and dutiful applause. The King smiled, convinced that the Prince would not be man enough to take the challenge, even with the King's help.

Now the Prince knew that if he walked away he would be likely be banished in shame from the Kingdom forever, never to see his love again. This he could not bear. And he was also a very clever Prince. So he swallowed hard, uttered a short prayer for luck, and then picked a door at random.

"I choose this door," said the prince in his deep, manly voice, as he walked over to one of the doors.

"Wait!" commanded the King in surprise. "I am as good as my word. Now I will show you a tiger. Guards! Reveal a tiger from behind one of the two remaining doors!"

Three of the Kings guards cautiously walked over to one of the other doors, opened it a crack, and then quick as they could slammed it shut. A huge hungry tiger had been crouching right behind it! The door shook as the tiger leaped up against it.

"Now," said the King, "Make your choice!" And, glancing to his court, he added, "Unless of course you wish to give up now and walk away..."
What Are the Prince's Chances?

The prince is now left with two doors. Behind one of them is a tiger, and behind the other is the Princess. Should he stick with the original door he picked, or open the other one? Or does it even matter? And what are his chances of living happily ever after with the Princess?

Hint: Even though he has two doors left, his chances are actually NOT 50/50.

He should change doors. I'm not sure about the percentages but if he's standing in front of a tiger door, the guards had no choice in which door to open. So since there's a chance that the door they opened was because they had no choice, the prince should choose the other door.

Edit : For the percentages I think it's 66% happy ending if he chooses the other door.

 



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By changing doors he gets 2/3 change.

Originally, there was a 1/3 change he was correct.

Thus, that is 1/3 change still.

That means there is a 2/3 change that the other is correct.

 

Okay, I have a riddle. I'm not very good at putting these though, but I'll give it a shot.

 

You recieve two boxes with a number inside each box. The two numbers are different but you don't know what they are. You pick one box to open, read the number inside and then guess if the number in the other box is larger or smaller. You win if you guess correctly, and lose otherwise. Is there anyway that you can win the game with more than 50% chances no matter what the two numbers are?

 

 



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

correct!

Oyvoyvoyv has a good explanation, but if you want a more thorough answer you can go here

http://www.amazeingart.com/fun/lady-tiger-answer.html

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Oyvoyvoyv said:

 

You recieve two boxes with a number inside each box. The two numbers are different but you don't know what they are. You pick one box to open, read the number inside and then guess if the number in the other box is larger or smaller. You win if you guess correctly, and lose otherwise. Is there anyway that you can win the game with more than 50% chances no matter what the two numbers are?

 

 

If the numbers that are in the boxes are totally random (that is, they aren't restricted to, say, the first 10 numbers), then you'll always have more chances of winning by saying that in the other box is a larger number (since every number has more numbers that are larger than it than numbers that are smaller than it).

 




so long as it is an integer in the range [0,∞) then you would guess larger all the time.

If you have a known range, then it is a piece of cake,

If it is from (-∞, ∞) then I don't have a clue.




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