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The riddle of birthdays

2020-07-022019-01-20 by KJ Runia

Probabilities can be hard to grasp. For instance, what are the chances that among a birthday party’s attendants two or more people will have their birthdays on the same day? Probably better than you might expect.

Categories Mathematics, Secondary ed level, Tutorial Tags birthday problem, calendar, date, Dirichlet, pigeonhole principle, probabilities, probability

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