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The Peanuts (Posted on 2003-02-18)

Although some of the things in this problem aren't true in real life just assume they are in the question.

When growing peanuts the following happens:

for every 2 single chambered peanuts there will be one double chambered peanut

for every 2 double chambered peanuts there will be one triple chambered peanut

for every 2 triple chambered peanuts there will be one quadruple chambered peanut.

When a company packages 1000 peanuts in one bag they take peanuts randomly from a giant bin that contins all the peanuts grown. What are the odds that there will be 1000 individual nuts?

See The Solution Submitted by Alan

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The probability is approximately 0.1814.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2007-05-07 12:04:10

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