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What are the chances of something with one chance of three occurring fifteen out of eighteen times?
Twenty-one spots were awarded by lottery to various groups to display holiday messages. The atheists got 15, the Christians 2, and the Jews 1. Somebody is crying conspiracy. Assuming only these thre groups participated, and each had an equal chance - 1 in 3 - of winning, what are the odds?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073879/Ha...
Thank you.
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- 9 years agoFavourite answer
Your math problem isn't set up properly, because it turns out one person can request 9 spaces. 2 atheists requested 9 each, for a total of 18, and there are 21 spaces available, so the remaining 3 spaces went to 2 Christians and 1 Jew. The city's mistake was allowing a single individual to request so many spots, and not requiring any sort of plan or guarantee that each spot would be used. There were a total of 13 applicants, and 5 got spaces.
If they had no plans to put attractive, appealing displays that would represent us well, they should not have done that. They could have done lovely things with all those spaces if they thought it out and had funding and were creative. Failtown.
I mean, what a wasted opportunity! Art, humor, shared secular values, science, all could have received an amazing free promotion, but no! So frustrating.
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