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  1. David Norman

    Statistics question for the math people

    Thanks. That was the first answer I came up with and it just didn;t feel right that 2.5% of the time it would take all 40 picks to get the specific item so I talked myself out of it. The other answer however seemed even more outlandish Oh well, just goes to show what happens when you...
  2. David Norman

    Statistics question for the math people

    At one time I used to be decent math and basic statistics, but 40 years have diminished my reasoning power and it's driving me crazy that I can't figure out why my answer makes no sense. Basically the art of the unlucky. A bag full of 40 different numbers picked one at a time and the drawn...
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