Chances Are
Which of these games would you play to give yourself the best possible chance of winning a prize?
Which of these games would you play to give yourself the best possible chance of winning a prize?
Can you work out the means of these distributions using numerical methods?
It is believed that weaker snooker players have a better chance of winning matches over eleven frames (i.e. first to win 6 frames) than they do over fifteen frames. Is this true?
A quadrilateral changes shape with the edge lengths constant. Show the scalar product of the diagonals is constant. If the diagonals are perpendicular in one position are they always perpendicular?
Which is the bigger, 9^10 or 10^9 ? Which is the bigger, 99^100 or 100^99 ?
Can you use Proof by Induction to establish what will happen when you add more and more odd numbers?
What is the smallest cuboid that you can put in this box so that you cannot fit another that's the same into it?
How many shapes can you build from three red and two green cubes? Can you use what you've found out to predict the number for four red and two green?
Can you make dice stairs using the rules stated? How do you know you have all the possible stairs?