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Re: Statistics/Probability Quiz

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Originally Posted by Basel A View Post
It's relatively straightforward to determine the probability that exactly 70 of the 420 rolls are ones (a simple binomial distribution problem). Next, it's relatively straightforward to determine the probability that exactly 70 of the remaining 350 are twos, etc. Using this method, I calculated the probability to be 5.9960458e-7.
Ahh whoops I see my error. I just did binomial for all of them without subtracting 70 each time like a fool.

Now I got 5.99*10^-7 as well. Weird - I thought it would need to be much closer to 0.
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