Timeline for Probability Question
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| Dec 14, 2009 at 12:18 | vote | accept | Claudiu | ||
| Dec 14, 2009 at 8:46 | comment | added | Claudiu | It was non-intuitive to me, but that is subjective, so I've removed the tag. I just didn't realize to break the problem down into more than one random variable. Thank you Theo for the tips as well. | |
| Dec 14, 2009 at 8:45 | vote | accept | Claudiu | ||
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| Dec 14, 2009 at 8:44 | history | edited | Claudiu | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 14, 2009 at 6:48 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | What is nonintuitive about the question? | |
| Dec 14, 2009 at 6:08 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | I was not one of the down votes, but I'll make a stab at why they're there. The aesthetic at MO seems to be to avoid specific numbers in problems: they make the problem look too homework-y. Instead, you could ask the the expected number of empty boxes when $N$ balls are assigned randomly to $M$ boxes, as a function of $N,M$. It's still not a deep question, as far as I can tell, and would be much better if you also waved at why you care about the question. | |
| Dec 14, 2009 at 5:06 | answer | added | Mike | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 14, 2009 at 4:45 | answer | added | Gjergji Zaimi | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 14, 2009 at 4:21 | history | asked | Claudiu | CC BY-SA 2.5 |