Thorondorito
One of Freddy's beloved
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2004
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ermmmm when you pick up 1 envelope for the first time... are u allowed to see the money in it?
Thorwyn[B&Q] said:solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope_paradox
Basically it all boils down to the fact that the probabilities aren´t the same for all values of x. Simply put: it´s more likely to find 100$ in the envelope, than 1.000.000.000.000.000$. And if that´s the case, then we there is no 50% chance.
I think this is a rather nice problem.
i got frustrated and googled for it, on every site that had this problem they all picked an envelope, opened it and saw what money was inside and then the host offered them the switch.