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Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:29:54 2013 No.5538754 [DELETED]

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Is Who wants to be a millionaire just a game of luck?

I mean, there's 33.34% chance of being right unless the person happens to know the right answer, and lifelines can only get you so far into the game.

Let's say there are 15 questions with 4 choices each. Let's also say there are 3 lifelines: call-a-friend, 50-50, and ask-the-audience.

For each of the 15 questions, there is only 1 correct answer, and 3 incorrect answers, so immediately your chances are 1/3 = 33.34%. You can use each lifeline once. Using phone-a-friend, let's say gives you a 95% chance the person you call is correct. So 1 question is 95%. Similarly, we can say ask-the-audience gives you a 95% chance. Finally, 50-50 will remove 2 wrong answers, so you have 1 right answer and 1 wrong answer, so you basically know the answer. To recap:

Question 1: 33.34%
Question 2: 33.34%
Question 3: 33.34%
Question 4: 95% <--- ask-the-audience
Question 5: 33.34%
Question 6: 33.34%
Question 7: 33.34%
Question 8: 33.34%
Question 9: 95% <--- phone-a-friend
Question 10: 33.34%
Question 11: 33.34%
Question 12: 33.34%
Question 13: 33.34%
Question 14: 33.34%
Question 15: 100% <--- 50-50
Total: 690.08%
Divided by 15 questions = 46.00%
So basically, it's more a less a game of chance, but more than half the people on the show will lose, so it's not very fair. That show is making tons of money off of people.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:31:23 2013 No.5538760 File: 51 KB, 210x231, 2spurd4u.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>>/lit/3479362

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 16:35:09 2013 No.5538779 File: 170 KB, 1118x1061, MILLIONAIRETROLLFAGGOT.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <<<

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:41:08 2013 No.5538804 File: 96 KB, 308x205, youmadbro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538779

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 16:42:54 2013 No.5538812 File: 20 KB, 614x352, ENG.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538804 nope, but i'm having that fucking pic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:43:38 2013 No.5538818 3/10 for making me post 1/588,855 .00017% chance, in case anybody was wondering.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:44:38 2013 No.5538822 File: 48 KB, 720x540, ek.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538812 >infantile cartoon

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 16:45:53 2013 No.5538825 >>5538818 wtf are you working out? coz that aint 1/4^15.

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 16:46:39 2013 No.5538832 File: 33 KB, 600x371, rose_umadbro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538822

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:50:09 2013 No.5538843 >>5538832 Does Harriet still have a black fuck buddy?

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 16:52:53 2013 No.5538848 >>5538843 wat? haz doesnt have fuckbuddies. also AFAIK she never dated anyone who was black (and yet claims to be completely none racist..hmm, funny that)

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:54:25 2013 No.5538856 File: 7 KB, 453x142, evidence for harriet being a slut.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538848 Don't deny what you told us. It has been screencapped.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 16:56:09 2013 No.5538862 >>5538848 lol. everyone is racist and prejudiced, and rightly so. Where would we be without induction?

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EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 16:58:38 2013 No.5538874
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>>5538856
that shit again, i already told you it was fucking photoshopped, and it was probably done by you, because i seriously doubt anyone other than the pathetic pleb who made it, would ever post it. because it's a shite fucking obvious sh00p.

also, i told haz it was shopped, so nice fucking fail troll.
0/10, now fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:01:39 2013 No.5538885 >>5538874 If you actually think this requires photoshop, you are the newest newfag to ever be new on the internet.

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:03:39 2013 No.5538894 >>5538885 fine, not photoshop. could easily do it on MS-paint. eitehr way it's still a shitty troll.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:05:23 2013 No.5538901 >>5538894 It doesn't require paint either. What's your IQ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:07:24 2013 No.5538906 >>5538894 EK, if you are somewhat attractive and smart, why do you spend your days in this shithole? also, do you know the rose from /g/? she's your age and from london as well

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:08:54 2013 No.5538915 >>5538906 >if you are somewhat attractive and smart That's a big IF, like the IF in "IF evolution was true".

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:09:24 2013 No.5538917 >>5538915 lol'd

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:09:39 2013 No.5538918 File: 70 KB, 450x360, 1339849349576.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538906 i never met her also wtf, why u think im from london?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:10:55 2013 No.5538922 >>5538918 :)

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:11:39 2013 No.5538929 >>5538918 also, where's that pic from? rose is hawt she got some new vids btw (like january ish)

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:18:24 2013 No.5538948 File: 114 KB, 450x360, 1343684365598.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538929 might be from her youtube? or just 4chan in general, IDK, i just saved it from somewhere and yeh, she is hawt.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:21:23 2013 No.5538958 >>5538948 nah. defo not youtubes i think she was on 4chan once or twice. why encyclopaedica dramatica has nothing on her is beyond me.

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EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:24:13 2013 No.5538968
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>>5538958
does it not??
wow, that's surprising.

there was this one of her naked, but facing backwards with head turned sideways, so you could only see her ass (and she has a hell of a tatoo) but it might have been a shop, i'm not sure.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:24:54 2013 No.5538970 I like to pretend that EK and Rose is actually the same person. That way I am totally turned on when in threads with EK. Not that I would not be if this fantasy was not in place.

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:26:08 2013 No.5538975 >>5538968 huh, just realised the tatoo is definitely real, you can see a bit of it on her arm in that image (the whole thing is a lot bigger and more awesome than that, it's just mainly covered up)

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:27:54 2013 No.5538978 >>5538968 It was a shop. I had the original version in my folder, before I annihilated the entire stash.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:27:54 2013 No.5538980 wasn't rose a trap?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:30:08 2013 No.5538986 >>5538975 yeah the tattoo is pretty cool. i think the nude is fake though. i've seen it. even if it's not, it's not that exciting >>5538970 nah, EK has no style. >>5538980 no, that was a hoax. no way she's a trap, look at her youtube vids.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:31:24 2013 No.5538993 >>5538929 from the livejournal she had a couple of years ago

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:31:53 2013 No.5538990 File: 2 KB, 105x126, awdude.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538978 >before I annihilated the entire stash. WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO THAT??

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:32:54 2013 No.5538995 >>5538980 nah, that's just one of those joke/meme things to troll newfags. like the whole 'fingerbox' thing. people who post it dont really believe it, they're just trolling.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:34:26 2013 No.5539002 >>5538990 I was obsessing too much. Also out of respect for Rose. Anyway, if there was more content of you I would be obsessing too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:39:40 2013 No.5539014 >>5538995 How many trip personalities do you have?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:40:10 2013 No.5539016 File: 1.93 MB, 3072x2304, newtonianlust.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5538929 dailybooth

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:40:53 2013 No.5539015 >>5538995 EK, you should set out to find rose. that would be awesome. >>5539002 see >>5538886 facebook com/rose.kellylines thank me later

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:43:24 2013 No.5539027 File: 230 KB, 468x354, 012774364.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5539002 >'more' >implying there's any oh god, you're a 7/7/11-fag?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:44:55 2013 No.5539032 File: 36 KB, 604x453, blahblah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5539015 that person is called rose elizabeth kelly lines rose ek lines so whoever they are, rose and ek are the same

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:45:39 2013 No.5539037 >>5539014 just this one, i dont samefag. (and i'm not really teacup or w/e, that was a hoax.)

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:46:24 2013 No.5539040 >33.34% Work on your calculus. 1/4 = 0.25%

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:46:54 2013 No.5539043 >>5539027 I was here that day, but it was nothing special in my opinion. I do not have any alleged pictures of you saved on my computer, either! Same as with Rose. I hope she is proud of me.

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EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:47:38 2013 No.5539045

>>5539032
coincidence.
loads of people with matching letters.
there'd only be 26^2 combinations of 2 letters, and billions of people on the planet (and, for initials, EK is probably much more likely than something like XZ, so it's actually even more common that just the 26^2()

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 17:47:38 2013 No.5539047 >>5539037 But we all know that you have been posting under the name "Terelsecky" in 2011.

>>	EK !EKFnQG0UBo Sun Feb 17 17:49:39 2013 No.5539052 >>5539047 wat? that wasnt me. i dont even remember them ever posting.