ENGLISH

Probability Games and Other Activities: Games of Combinations, Permutations, Predictions, Luck, & Chance [MindGames]

By Ivan Moscovich

Book information

Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Year
2000
ISBN
0761120173, 9780761120179
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2771361 bytes)
Pages
\28
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-09-01 20:28:57

Description

Think outside the box! Card Shark, Marble Madness, Sock It to Me! & Dizzy Walk In the beginning there's "Jewels of Xanadu" on the cover—where the chances of unlocking the special color-coded safe could be 1 in millions or 1 in 64, depending on where you start. And once you've survived that, another 25 mind-stretching puzzles await. Win a coin-toss game with three friends, calculate the real odds of winning the lottery, predict the chance of pulling the one green marble out of a box of red ones. Think like a mathematician, making sense of seemingly random events.Bring a pencil, but remember—(1) you don't have to be a whiz to play, because (2) the most important skills you'll need are curiosity and an open mind. (Solutions and explanations are provided of course!)

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