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Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
Do any of you have any noteworthy experiences where knowledge of math helped you in an unusual way?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @02:02PM
As someone who owns over 2 dozen goats, I think I'd rather switch to the door you just showed me gets me another goat. We could always use some new genes in the herd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @03:46PM
Amen. I'd pick the goat as well.
Especially because if they have the goat on the show, I bet it's a friendly goat. I might even try to feed it a bouquet and give it a nice scratch.