Connonym
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Tue Feb-12-08 03:10 AM
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I don't know how to figure odds and stuff like but I'd like to know the odds of this -- my sister's best friend just had her 4th baby. All 4 were born spontaneously -- no induction, no C section, and all 4 were born on a Wednesday. It seems to me that the odds of having 4 children all born on the same day of the week would be pretty slim. Or am I full of shit?
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Orsino
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Tue Feb-12-08 05:56 AM
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There's a 1 in 7 chance that the second child would be born on the same day as the first, again a 1/7 chance that the third would come on the same day, and 1 in seven for the fourth, too.
So, it's 1 over seven to the third.
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Dr. Strange
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Tue Feb-12-08 09:16 AM
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2. Probability of four kids born on the same day: 1/343 like Orsino said. |
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Odds for such an even happening: 1 to 342. (Odds against would be 342 to 1.)
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