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To summarise then , you believe if someone is left with 2 doors with a car behind one, there is a better chance of getting the car by switching doors. Aside from the computer programme, can you offer a logical explanation as to why?

I thought you were brighter than this drac, what do you think is the answer to this question out of curiosity ?

Running a bath (quiz)

Allow drac to answer this mister Q before giving the answer please

Drac you have a good brain , for love of God use it. There aren’t “100 doors” there are 3 doors rendering your analysis of these odds and computer programme unfit for purpose. Even using your example, the summary of the odds is flawed as using your example, one door is removed from 100 meaning the original choice has a 1 chance in 99 doors of…[Read more]

You have stated ..

If you run the simulation with 100 doors  instead, staying with the initial door gives ~1% chance of winning, switiching doors gives a ~99% chance of winning.

That’s mathematically impossible

The entry level to cambridge is a minimum of 3 A *s , whilst academic qualifications aren’t an overall guide to intelligence they can’t be attained by someone without some intellect. The universities offering entry level requirements of Ds etc are the places that aren’t fit for purpose

Your computer programme has gone wrong if it says there is a 1% chance of a straight shootout between 2 doors and a 50/50 chance. To clarify:

3 doors, 2 have goats behind , one has a car,contestant chooses one- doesn’t know whats inside and doesn’t open it. The host knows what’s in all 3 doors and chooses one of the other 2 doors the contestant…[Read more]

If it takes one tap 12 minutes and the other 6 minutes , the mean difference what it takes both taps is 9 minutes

If the bath empties in 8 minutes then the bath is filling up by ” 1 minutes worth ” of the 9 minutes it needs to fill up every 9 minutes. 9 x 9 = 81 to fill the bath logic would dictate

81 minutes

It depends on the university as some polytechnics masquerading as universities offering a degree in ” media studies ” have an entry standard so low that practically writing your own name correctly would enable you to enroll. My father taught history at Cambridge and whilst it’s difficult to quantify intelligence, find it hard to believe isn’t a…[Read more]

Hi drac, hope you are keeping well,

I will bow to your superior knowledge of computer programming rather than trying to enter one myself, as it will probably end up with a pork sandwich being revealed at the door. To clarify, are you saying that after testing this, the end result is  a negligible /no benefit from switching the door as Mister Q…[Read more]

Must be the north pole as it doesnt have a time zone

It seems so obvious that it remains 50/50 but begs the question why there are maths PHDs with no affiliation to the game show stating to the contrary. Perhaps a modern day rerun of the emperors new cloths for maths?

This is exactly my thought process as well but looking down the article , there are some very intelligent people saying otherwise which makes me question my initial opinion.

3 doors 2 have goats , one has a car behind it .. contestant doesn’t know whats behind any of them just the host. Contestant picks one door at random (door 1), host has to show a goat to the contestant illustrating which doors it’s behind ( door 2 or 3) .  The contestant now has two doors , one has a car obviously and one has a goat. The argument…[Read more]

I’m in a fairly heated debate with someone  on a football forum over probability and it’s an old age argument you may have encountered. To summarise , there are three doors, one has a car behind it and two have goats. The contestant picks one door and the host picks a door with a goat behind it leaving the door the contestant has picked and one…[Read more]

It all depends where the poles on the magnet are located .The real magnet will have a magnetic field at its poles, but not at its centre so if you take the iron bar and touch its tip to the magnet’s centre, the iron bar will not be attracted. This is assuming that the magnet’s poles are at its ends. If the poles run through the length of the…[Read more]

Well breaking it down , if 140 bottles were sold and a quarter were red then obviously 105 were white and 35 were red. As we know red costs 3 times the amount of it’s white counterpart  so we know 35 red bottles were sold for £266 which is the same for the 105 white bottles being 3 times the cost. Therefore 105 white bottles would cost a total o…[Read more]

Incidentally it’s mathematically impossible for what you have written to be accurate .

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