/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4676766]

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

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

[Anonymous No.4676767]

D. Sassafras

hah!

[Anonymous No.4676770]

That show still running???

[Anonymous No.4676773]

yea its luck, 50% chance. either you win or you don't

[Anonymous No.4676771]

If it was a game of luck, then there would be a 25% chance of being right

[Anonymous No.4676775]

If we discount the possibility of losing, then there's a 100% chance of winning.

It's not a game of chance.

[Anonymous No.4676777]

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 No.4676781]

>4 choices
>33.34% chance of being right

What in the flying fuck?

[Anonymous No.4676782]

>>4676766
>>4676777
This thread keeps happening. Is it a troll?

[Anonymous No.4676785]

>>4676782

hard to tell

[Anonymous No.4676806]

Is that David Duchovney? I think there's a 100% chance I've seen his weiner.

[Anonymous No.4676808]

>>4676781
whatthefuckamireading
also,
>rounding 1/3 to 33.34
>not 33.33
ishygddt

[Anonymous No.4676811]

>>4676777
dafuq is this shit

[Anonymous No.4676816]

>>4676782
It would be a troll if they were trolling

[Anonymous No.4676824]

>>4676777
Not trolling softly enough.
2/10 made me reply.

[Anonymous No.4676856]

well, what is the answer???

[Anonymous No.4676860]

Ted Kaczynski
Anders Behring Breivik

[Anonymous No.4676861]

10/10
Magnificent performance!

>"Would get trolled again." -Roger Ebert
>"I have never felt so trolled." -David Ansen
>"I'm so fucking high right now." -Anonymous pothead

[Anonymous No.4677215]

>>4676782
Just copypasta i think. Dunno.

[Anonymous No.4677222]

>>4676777
Ugh, my eyes hurts!

[Anonymous No.4678546]

>>4677222
>>4676777

what

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4678551]

>>4676777
what the actual fuck?
this is going in my copypasta folder.

[Anonymous No.4678566]

>>4678551
It's this kinda people that make this:
>>4676777
kinda copypasta

[Anonymous No.4678572]

>>4678551
please die
your pictures are fucking gay
she's a fucking hideous slut
and i get fucking mad everytime i see her face and your name accompanying it
/sci/ doesnt like you
/sci/ never liked you
kindly have gay ass-hole sex with OP and call it a day faggot

OH AND DID I MENTION? OP IS A FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.4678577]

>>4676777

>9/10

1/10 for the trolling
8/10 for the lel factor

[Anonymous No.4678586]

>>4678577
>1/10
>8/10
>=9/10

And this is a math and science board. Holy fuck, Moot just close it down now.
Just do it, faggot.
Holy shit

[Anonymous No.4678728]

>>4678572
Hey, speak for yourself, not for the entirety of /sci/.

[Anonymous No.4678732]

>>4678586

X marks for trolling.
Y marks for lulz.

Out of a total possible mark of Z, the troll was awarded X + Y, i.e. 9/10.

Fucking hell.

[Anonymous No.4678801]

>>4678551
stop posting image of your face.
you are ugly

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4678802]

>>4678801
thats not MY face, fucker!
and shes not ugly, you blind fucking retard!

[Anonymous No.4678803]

>>4678551
narcissist bitch

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4678806]

>>4678803
wat? how the fuck is that narcissistic?
its funny!

[Anonymous No.4678808]

WE HAVE THIS THREAD EVERY SINGLE DAY
HAVE NONE OF YOU LEARNED ANYTHING YET?

[Anonymous No.4678810]

>>4678802
shut up

[Anonymous No.4678809]

>>4678732
1/10 + 8/10 = 9/20, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.4678815]

>>4678802

She's average at best.

I'd still throw her some goo.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4678818]

>>4678815
>throw her some goo.
eww, wtf? thats the term you actually use for it??

[Anonymous No.4678819]

>>4678809

If it's out of the same ten it isn't you fucking retard.

Split a loaf into ten slices and spread them out, make one pile of eight and two single slices.

Add one of the single slices to the pile of eight and you have nine out of ten slices of bread. 9/10.

Suck my tiny penis you retard.

[Anonymous No.4678822]

take your pills, ek. you're starting to get annoying as fuck again.

[Anonymous No.4678823]

>>4678818

It is now, yeah.

Ha.

[Anonymous No.4678826]

it's a game of skill not a game of chance; your winnings are directly influenced by your ability to play the game.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4678829]

>>4678819
<<<
>>4678822
i took em
>>4678823
w/e