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Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Saturday, 2 August 2008, at 6:22 p.m.

In Response To: probability (Bob Koca)

Oh. And if every child is born with two arms, and there are 30 children in a classroom, if the question is how many arms do they have the answer is not "sixty" but "it's impossible to tell, because the children might live in Sierra Leone."

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    Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 8:15 a.m.
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      Christian Munk-Christensen -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 8:18 a.m.
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    bob koca -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 8:22 a.m.
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        garyo -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 5:02 p.m.
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        Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 6:12 p.m.
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            Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 2 August 2008, at 6:22 p.m.
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