Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions

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Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1965 - 88 pages
The sck drawer; Sucessive wins; The flippant juror; Trials until first success; Coin in square; Chuck-a-luck; Curing the compulsive gambler; Perfect bridge hand; Craps; An experiment in personal taste for money prisoners dilemma; Collecting coupons, including Eulers approximation for harmanic suns; The theater row; Will second-best be runner-up? Twin knights; Am even split at coin tossing, inchuding Stirlings approximation; Isaac Newton helps Samuel Pepys; The three-cornered duel; Shauld you sample with or withaut replacement? The ballot box; Fies in matching pennies; The infair subway; Lengths of random Chords; The hurried duelers; Catching the cautions counterfreited; Catching the greedy counterfeiter, including the Poisson distribution; Moldy gelatin; Eveningthe sales. Birthday hairing; Finding your birthmate; Relating the birthday haitings and birthmate problemes. Birthday holidays; The cliff-hanger; Gamblers ruim; Bold play vs. Cantions play; The thick coin. Digression: A note on the principle of symmetry chemist; The firstace; The locomotive probem; The little end of the stick; The broken bar; Winning an uinfair game; matches; Choosing the largest dowry; Choosing the largest random number. Doubling your accuracy; Random quadratic equatins; Tubdimensional random walk; Three-dilmensional random walk; Buffons needle; Buffons needle with horizontal and vertical rulings; hoong needles; molinas urns.

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