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tic-tac-toe (Posted on 2004-07-30) Difficulty: 3 of 5
If I put nine pieces of paper, with a digit from 1-9 written on each one, into a hat, and pull 3 out without replacement, what is the likelihood that I will select three numbers that result in a winning tic-tac-toe?
 1 | 2 | 3 
---+---+---
 4 | 5 | 6 
---+---+---
 7 | 8 | 9 

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answer | Comment 9 of 14 |
Lets say you draw 1,3,7,9 first prob (4/9)
This gives you 3 possible 2 slip combinations that will allow you a line (3/56)

Lets say you draw 2,4,6,8, first prob (4/9)
this gives you 2 possible winning combinations that will give you a line (2/56)

Lets say you draw 5 prob (1/9)
this gives you 5 pairs that will give you a line
(5/56)

Using multiplicative and additive rule of disjoint probabilities we get 25/504
  Posted by neshal on 2004-08-02 05:40:26
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