Three friends sharing a weekday of birth
Question
Three friends each have a birth weekday that is uniform over the days and independent of the others. What is the probability that at least two of them share a birth weekday?
Short answer
. Work with the complement: all three differ with probability , so a shared weekday has probability .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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