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What Are the Odds of Losing Your Lunch? – A Probability Adventure

What Are the Odds of Losing Your Lunch? – A Probability Adventure

By Bill Lombard on 17 May, 2009

Here’s a neat problem recently under discussion in our school district: “Four kids, each with their own lunch, go on a trip. When it’s time to eat, the four identical-looking lunches are mixed up and the kids randomly choose one. what is the probability that exactly one kid gets his own lunch?” This problem is [...]

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