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Birthday Line (Posted on 2004-03-29) Difficulty: 3 of 5
At a movie theater, the manager announces that they will give a free ticket to the first person in line whose birthday is the same as someone who has already bought a ticket. You have the option of getting in line at any time. Assuming that you don't know anyone else's birthday, that birthdays are distributed randomly throughout the year, etc., what position in line gives you the greatest chance of being the first duplicate birthday?

from http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/hard.shtml

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hmmmmm | Comment 18 of 21 |
the last position in line would give the best probable chance of having a duplicate birthday

  Posted by Devin on 2004-04-16 10:27:38
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