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3 Birthday problem (again)!

by Phoe6 <orsenthil@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 10, 2008 at 07:05 PM

Question: There are 27 students on the debate team. What is the
probability that at least 3 of them have their birthday in the same
month.

From inspection, we can understand that as there are more than 24
students ( 2 x 12 for months), there will be 3 students extra who will
have to share their birthday with the any of the others, so the chance
is 1.

I am looking for the mathematical equations for this.
How does 'at least three' of them share the birthday translate to in
this?
 




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3 Birthday problem (again)!
Phoe6 <orsenthil@[EMAI  2008-05-10 19:05:42 
Re: 3 Birthday problem (again)!
Paul Sperry <plsperry@  2008-05-11 03:26:58 

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