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Jul 28, 2021: -2

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How do you calculate $P(X = n|G), P(X = n|G^C)$ by the Law of Total Probability, with extra conditioning?

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How can I visualize the Law of Total Probability with extra conditioning?

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Jul 27, 2021: -3

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In the Lost Boarding Pass Probability Problem, why couldn't Passengers 2-99 sit in Seats 1 or 100, before Passenger 100 boards?

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Jul 25, 2021: -1

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How can "information about the birth season" bring "at least one is a girl" closer to "a specific one is a girl"?

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Jul 24, 2021: -2

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How can "information about the birth season" bring "at least one is a girl" closer to "a specific one is a girl"?

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Jul 14, 2021: -1

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If A & B are joint, can Arby recoup some of his loss only when $P_{Arby}(A \cup B) < P_{Arby}(A) + P_{Arby}(B)$?

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Jul 13, 2021: -2

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Why isn't the probability of being void in 3 specific suits $\frac{1/13}{\dbinom{52}{13}}$?

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Jul 11, 2021: +2

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$\sum_{k=0}^{n} \binom{n}{k}=2^{n} \overset{?}{\iff} \sum_{k=0}^{n} \binom{2n+1}{k}=2^{2n}$

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Jul 9, 2021: -27

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Why $\color{red}{k\dbinom{k}{1}} \neq$ "first choose the k team members and then choose one of time to be captain"?

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Why shouldn't the Bose-Einstein value be used to calculate birthday probabilities?

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You're sampling k people from a population of size n one at a time, with replacement and with equal probabilities. Order or not?

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What's the bijection between Stars and Bars and Integer Solutions to an Equality?

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Are Stars and Bars in Combinatorics related to the Fence Post Error?

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Out of 4 people, why does ways to choose a 2-person committee overcount by 2 the ways to divide the 4 into 2 teams of 2?

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Explain to a 9 year old — To count each possibility c times, why divide by c? Why not subtract by c?

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If k = 1, why $n(n-1) \dots \color{red}{(n-k+1)} = n$?

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Intuitively, if you pick k out of n objects singly without replacement, why's the number of possible outcomes NOT $n(n-1) \dots [(n-(k - 1)]\color{red}{(n - k)}$?

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Why aren't the "21 possibilities here" NOT equally likely?

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Without calculations, how can you visualize "that half the squares are white and half are black"?

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Jul 7, 2021: -2

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What story and two-digit Natural Numbers best fit Bayes' Theorem chart?

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What story and one-digit Natural Numbers explain Bayes' Theorem chart most simply?

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Jul 6, 2021: -1

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What story and TWO-digit Natural Numbers best fit Bayes' Theorem chart?

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Jun 4, 2021: -1

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What story and two-digit Natural Numbers best fit Bayes' Theorem chart?

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Feb 10, 2021: +2

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Why isn't \hline rendering here, when it does on Stack Exchange?

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What story and one-digit Natural Numbers explain Bayes' Theorem chart most simply?

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Dec 30, 2020: +2

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How can I deduce which operation removes redundacies?

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