Timeline for What is the probability that the two balls have different colors?
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| Oct 30, 2016 at 2:26 | comment | added | twalbaum | So weird, but it actually holds true for other pairs of sizes of urns. If you have an urn with the same number of balls of each colour, the probability of taking two different coloured balls is the same as when you take one ball out of the urn. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 2:20 | vote | accept | user366312 | ||
| Oct 29, 2016 at 2:11 | comment | added | dsaxton | @DilipSarwate I actually had a hard time believing it myself. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 2:09 | answer | added | dsaxton | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 2:01 | comment | added | Dilip Sarwate | What is indeed remarkable is that you find that the probability of getting two balls of different colors is the same regardless of which urn is chosen and this does not bother you at all. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 1:37 | history | asked | user366312 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |