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From: johnc@orca.UUCP (John Crown)
Newsgroups: net.math,net.misc,net.rec.bridge
Subject: Re: simple (?) statistics problem solved
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 12:50:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 19 12:50:32 1983
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Here's another note from an enlightened dummy who failed this quiz on first
try:

The cabinet that contains only silver coins really *is* a red herring (which
is what we all knew intuitively).  I.e., once you get to "round two" and you
have a gold coin in sight, you are in one of *three* (not two) equally likely
states.  How you got there is no longer of interest.  If you started with
only four drawers (by omitting the silver-only cabinet), or with six, or a
hundred (by adding more silver-only cabinets), the problem still works out
the same.

John Crown, Tektronix
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