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in the room
Website: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~susan/surprise/Birthday.html
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Count
the number of times you had at least one match for each trial. What is
the percentage of successful matches to trials? (One or more matches counts
as only one match.)
Student
activity:
Have students
collect data on groups of X
people whose birthdates are unknown but can be ascertained. For example:
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Presidents of the United
States
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Members of the New York
Jets football team
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Members of the New York
Liberty basketball team
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Students in your schools
classrooms. (Choose X members at random from a class list and find out
their birthdates.)