Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Picking Items from a Bag

Monday, March 19, 2012 - 20:40 in Mathematics & Economics

A set of problems on picking items from a bag, that illustrates, and attempts to reinforce intuitions about estimating probabilities. Plus a Scrabble puzzle.

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