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Common Birth Dates (Posted on 2021-09-29) Difficulty: 2 of 5
It has been noted that Roger Ebert and Paul McCartney were born on the same day (year, month and day). How many such coincidences should you expect?

To make things specific, assume there are 1000 celebrities of such stature and recency, and that whatever their average age is, the standard deviation of their ages is 12 years and follows a normal distribution. Of course the date is rounded to the day; don't worry about the hours.

Feel free to vary the assumptions for bonus answers.

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An interesting extension | Comment 4 of 7 |
An interesting extension to this problem would be to find the probability of two people in history born on the same day. For example, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809.


  Posted by Math Man on 2021-10-02 19:01:59
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