MikeDuffy
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Fri Jun-13-08 10:14 AM
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The 13th of the month is most likely to fall on which day of the week? |
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Edited on Fri Jun-13-08 10:19 AM by MikeDuffy
Hint: The first letter of the answer is not a vowel...
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Gman
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Fri Jun-13-08 10:17 AM
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Edited on Fri Jun-13-08 10:18 AM by Gman
as the 13th is almost the middle of the month, hence closer to the middle of the week, statistically speaking. Kinda the same logic as rolling two dice, the most common number will be 7.
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Fri Jun-13-08 10:20 AM
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2. Looks like Saturday is the most common for 2008. But not by enough... |
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... to argue it's not random. Would have to take a bigger sample to argue that it's not random. Or come up with a completely separate argument.
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Fri Jun-13-08 10:22 AM
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3. I don't see why there would be any greater liklihood of falling on |
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any particular day. As there are an even number of '13s' in a year, and an odd number of days in a year, the 13th MUST migrate across the week.
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MikeDuffy
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Fri Jun-13-08 10:33 AM
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4. If you do the math over the 400 year leap year cycle, the answer is |
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