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Re: OT: Probability question - Wanna Play?
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Philbert <[log in to unmask]>
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Philbert <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:12:29 -0600
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"Garo K Akcelik" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:F4B1826B1A21D211AEC5006008207AF404377E4E@dogbert.csillc.com...
> Just because Monty
> knowingly eliminates one door that is not the prize, that doesn't improve
your
> chance. The other door now represents both doors with the same 2 out of 3
> chance.

Garo, I'm goin' crazy here.  If eliminating one door doesn't improve my
chance, how about opening both doors?  Would that do it?  Open one door and
my odds are 50/50.  Open both doors, and my odd are 100/0 (or 0/100).

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