The Monty Hall Problem gets its name from the TV game show,Let's Make A Deal, hosted by Monty Hall1. The scenario is such: you are given the opportunity to select one closed door of three, behind one of which there is a prize. The other two doors hide “goats” (or some other ...
Monty explained “I wanted to con you into switching there, because I knew the car was behind [the door you initially selected]. That's the kind of thing I can do when I'm in control of the game.”Of course, Monty Hall’s approach to the game isn’t necessarily definitive, but in...
This question was dubbed the Monty Hall problem in a 1975 letter to the journalAmerican Statisticianby Steve Selvin, however, an equivalent problem called the Three Prisoner Problem was published in a 1959 edition ofScientific American. The problem came to the attention of the public and caused a...
I am pleased to welcomeArnab Chakrabortyback to my talk show, “The Central Equilibrium“, to talk aboutthe Monty Hall Problem and Bayes’ theorem. In this episode, he shows 2 solutions to this classic puzzle in probability, and invokes Bayes’ Theorem for the second solution. ...
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problemwithwinningthegoats,butfortherestofthisactivitylet’sassumethatagoatis anundesirableprize. TheMathematicalMontyHallProblem:Let’sassumethatthereisoneexcellentprize locatedbehindoneofthethreedoorsthatyouaretryingtowin(theothertwodoors containnothing).Onceyoupickadoor,thehostalwaysopensanotherdoorthatdoesnot ...
Monty Hall.At the end of each day’s show,a successful player would stand with Monty facing three big doors:Door no. 1,Door no.2, and Door no. 3.Monty Hall explained to the player that there was a highly desirable prize behind one of the doors—something like a new car—and a ...
The properties of magic squares are explained using the usual 3x3 magic square. And a problem is posed: ``A number that divided by 3 leaves 2, divided by 5 leaves 3 and divided by 7 leaves 2. What is the number?'' $$$ Bread & Kisses (2010) IMDB ** A cute short film about a...
You might be familiar with the Monty Hallproblem— a puzzle from the namesake game show where an individual is shown three closed doors. Behind two of them are goats, but behind the final one is a car. The contestant begins by indicating an initial guess for the right door. The host...
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