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EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 11:58pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
I think I get what you are trying to say now

Modified :
....... but you must realize that what you're asking is impossible to determine without towing the probability lane. The best we can do is to calculate the probability of an unshared birthda.y and then tweak it. Take for instance if the probability of an unshared birthday is 1/5. It means that for every 5 people, 1 won't share birthday and since we are looking at a total of 100 students, you will get 20 students in all as what you desire.

Unfortunately, in this case the probability is marginal and the number you require is about 3 in a 10 million samples or something like that.

Cc: jackpot, Mr. Shape
It's actually very possible to determine by going experimentally.

The hard way is to run the experiment about ten thousand times using a PC and find the average.

The easy way should be probability distribution functions and expected values from statistics. I strongly feel so.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 11:43pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
A random sample can also give you 0 people without birthday mates in a size of 100.
That's like 1 in 100 cubic trillion trillion chance. grin grin grin

That's why I am saying you should run the experiment. Let's see possibility of getting zero. cheesy wink

I bet that any random sample of 100 that you chose at random will give you about 15-30 persons with birthday mates. That's also surprising considering the fact that there are 365 days in our year.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 10:44pm On Apr 30, 2020
Mrshape:
3 out of 10000000 people
when a random experiment gave me 85 without birthday mates (and 15 with birthday mates) out of 100 grin grin grin

If anything, the two are not close. Random experiments often give clue to magnitude of the answer.

Try and run the experiment with a section of the players data. It helps to appreciate results when they come.

But you may use a consecutive 100 players for the experiment to have semblance of randomness wink
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 10:35pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
Thanks for the clarification.
This is my points exactly.
Based on this example, 15 people have shared birthdays but the number of shared birthdays is just 7. That's the difference I was talking about.
Okay.
naturalwaves:
The question requires.... Number of unshared birthdays from the group and not number of students with an unshared birthday.
my question remains number of students that do not share their birthdays with any other group members.

However, what you asked is another different legit question.

Maybe you should pose this question formally? I'll be happy to attempt it.

Can you run an experiment with the last 100 players in the PDF file and give your findings regarding:

1. Number of unshared birthdays?
2. Number that do not have birthday mates?
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 10:24pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
Thanks Mr. Shape for talking about the birthday paradox. I had to quickly read on it on wiki and then I was lucky to get this video. Please, let us take time to watch it. The dude in the video even used 100 people to illustrate from time stamp 5:33 Please, try and watch.
CC: Martinez39s, jackpot.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofTb57aZHZs
my question is different from the birthday paradox. Birthday paradox has it's origin in the probability of at least a member of a group of size k (an integer>2) having a birthday mate.

But birthday paradox helps a bit to understand the question.

If the probability that a member of a group having a birthday mate in a group of 100 is 99.99997%, one can infer that on average those that have birthday mate(s) in a random group of 100 are a significant number x.

I'm looking for (100-x) being number of those that don't have birthday mates.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 10:07pm On Apr 30, 2020
Martinez39s:
grin grin grin grin grin

Your question doesn't make a shred of sense, or it is incomplete. If I have 100 students in a class, I need to know their birthdays before I can know the expected number of students that have no birthday mates because there are 365100 possible ways a group of 100 students can be assigned birthdays.

Let's pick four possibilities with a class of 100:
1) If no one has a birthday mate, the expected number of students with no birthday mates is 100.
2) If only two students share the birthday and others don't have birthday mates, the expected number of students with no birthday mate is 98.
3) if three students share the same birthdays, two students share another birthday, and the rest have no birthday mates, the expected number of students with no birthday mates is 95.
4) If all students share the same birthday, the expected number of students with no birthday mates is 0.

So you see, you need to know the birthdays of each student to know the expected number of students with no birthday mates.

Edit: I could list many more possibilities. In fact, I can list a possibility to arrive at any expected number (from 0 to 100) of students with no birthday mates.
that is why we are assuming a random group of 100 nah.

By the way, in a random experiment of the question, the possiblity of the cases you mentioned happening is almost zero.

See, I believe that we are learning.

Download that PDF and run the experiment with the last 100 players. Tell me your result. wink
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 9:58pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
See what you wrote now Jackpot
You initially said 15 have shared birthdays.
Now, 6 pairs =12
Hiw did they share different birthdays again. I think you didn't understand my question.

I actually meant that, for the number that have their birthdays shared, what is the distribution like? E. G if 15 people share birthdays, 4 can be April 30 and the remaining 11 can be May 1. That's the sort of info I requested.
Okay, here's the info. I had to look for the sheet of paper that I used


2 shared 13th January
2 shared 5th February
2 shared 9th August
2 shared 31st August
3 shared 2nd October
2 shared 16th October
2 shared 16th December
Total of 15.


The rest 85 didn't have birthday mates.


I hope all is clear now?
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 9:52pm On Apr 30, 2020
Mrshape:
The question how many birth dates are shared can't be answers with does information, it is a lot of possibilities
That is the reason why I used expected number.

It is expected that the possibilities should cluster around a particular value (the answer in this case)

It's similar to asking "expected number of times 6 will appear in 60 tosses of a fair die". Of course, there are different possibilities but the answer is 10.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 9:38pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
That means that 15 players share birthdays but only 12 birthdays are shared.
no, 6+1=7. I get your point about shared birthdays but that isn't the angle of the question. wink

But I mean how many students in a group of 100 do we expect to not share their birthdays with others in the group? In other words, how many do not have birthday mates?

Like in the data, 85 didn't have birthday mates.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 9:26pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
You've not answered my question. From the 15 people with shared birthdays, how many birthdays are shared
15 people can share just 1 birthday.
Among the 15 players, 6 pairs of players shared 6 different birthdays while 3 players shared the same birthday.

So, 6×2+3=15.

The rest 85 players do not have birthday mates.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 9:20pm On Apr 30, 2020
Martinez39s:
grin grin grin I said it, but others were telling me I need probability. Naturalwaves found the probability of selecting a group of 100 in which at least two share a birthday assuming we have 365 days in a year. His solution doesn't make sense because number of birthdays can't be a decimal, neither can it be a probability.

Nevertheless, I am yet to understand your question.
•• If you are looking for the number of possible ways in which no two people in a group of 100 share the same birthday (assuming we have 365 days in a year) then your answer is

•• If you seek the number of possible ways in which at least two people in a group of 100 share the same birthday (assuming we have 365 days in a year) then your answer is

I repeat, I still don't understand your question except I presume what you could possibly mean.
You have 100 students only in a class. What is the expected number of students in the class that do not have birthday mates?
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 9:16pm On Apr 30, 2020
Mrshape:
He did the correct thing sis
His answer is correct but I think it is not the direct answer to the question I posed.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 8:43pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
You should also be careful not to confuse "unshared birthdays" with "number of students with unshared birthdays" The question requires the former.
the birthdays belong to somebody na grin grin cheesy

What's the difference? huh wink
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 8:39pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
No, my answer says it is almost impossible to see an unshared birthday which means that the probability of having a shared birthday is higher.
Okay, but if you multiply your answer with 100, you will get 0.000030725. Is that the expected number? That answer is almost zero na wink
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 8:24pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
The question is not as basic as you see.
Sure.
naturalwaves:
There is a large difference between 15 students sharing birthday and number of shared birthdays 15 students can share just 1 birthday. 15 students can share 3 birthdays etc etc .
From that data, 85 have distinct birthdays but 15 must have at least a birthday mate. Note that as you noticed, this is different from saying that 15 share the same birthday.
naturalwaves:
How many birth days are shared in the document?
A lot. I just considered the first 100 so that I will not deviate from the question.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 8:17pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
Multiply the answer by 100 to get your answer. That's a negligible figure as it is far far less than 1.
I think that the answer you got is the probability of 100 persons having distinct birthdays.


I don't think E=NP should work here. If you multiply by 100, it's still a negligible number and it will tend to invalidate your earlier probability (because I think that your probability answer is saying that it is almost impossible not to see a shared birthday among 100 persons). Check again.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 8:09pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:
Maybe we should try to simulate it using real data. This is the [url]https://img.fifa.com/image/upload/hzfqyndmnqazczvc5xdb.pdf [/url]for 2018 fifa world cup data with the players birthdays.

We can decide to pick any consecutive 100 players. Either from top, middle or bottom.

Let's go!
Okay, for the first 100 players in the PDF whose link is shown, I found out that
15 share birthdays while 85 didn't share birthdays.

However, this gives just an idea of the problem but is not the answer at all
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 8:04pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:
SOLUTION
We need to take a step by step approach in order to get this.
Since 29th of February is not included, this means that we are dealing with just 365 days.
Having said that, what is the expected probability of the 1st student? That is going to be 365/365 days
What is the expected probability of the 2nd student? 364/365
Third? 363/365
Fourth....362/365
Fifth..................361/365
This is how it will go on till we get to the 100th student which will be 266/365 but we cannot do this as it will be too cumbersome.
Now, let us sort the denominator. Every component in the denominator is 365 i.e 365/365 * 364/365 * 363/365................*266/365.
This means that the denominator will be 365100.

How about the numerator? We have 365! but we are not going to be needing the whole of it. We only need the area from 365 to 266. How do we get this?
All we need do is to divide 365! by 265!.

Thus, the desired solution to the problem is;
(365!) / (265! * 365100).

Modified:
So, I have gotten a calculator,
(365!) / (265! * 365100). = 3.0725 * 10-7 approximately.
That is around 0.00000030725 approx.
As you can see, the probability is very slim as it is almost unlikely that out of 100 students, none will share a birthday which makes a lot of sense.

cc: Jackpot, Dejt4u, Martinez39s, Mrshape, Richiez, mathefaro,ifada123, Goalnaldo

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I think that you are solving a different question cheesy wink

The question says expected number of unshared birthdays among 100 students?
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 10:15am On Apr 30, 2020
Maybe we should try to simulate it using real data. This is the [url]https://img.fifa.com/image/upload/hzfqyndmnqazczvc5xdb.pdf [/url]for 2018 fifa world cup data with the players birthdays.

We can decide to pick any consecutive 100 players. Either from top, middle or bottom.

Let's go!
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 9:48am On Apr 30, 2020
ifada123:
Let's go.

Probability of first person number having birth day with another is 364/365
Second 363/365
Third 362/365
......... 265/365
So
Prob of not have same of 100 persons will be =

(First ) and (second ) and (third)and....×(100th no)
=(First not) x (second not) x (third not)x.....(100th not)
(364/365)×(363/365)×(362/365).......x(265/360)
=(1/365) x 364 P100
=

Almost everyone will share same birth day
the answer then would be totally strange. Or don't you think? wink

I thought in same direction but I don't think E=NP should apply.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 4:51am On Apr 30, 2020
ifada123:
Is require critical thinking o
yes bro. cool

Get to work. I need to see your solution. wink
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 4:44am On Apr 30, 2020
Martinez39s:
Do you actually mean the number of possible ways in which the students can have their birthdays without any two sharing the same birthday? If that is what you mean, your answer is
No. That is not what I mean.

If one throws in 100 random birthdays, one expects some birthdays to match and some not to match. If this random experiment is conducted continuously (so to say), on the average, how many birthdays do not match with the others in a group of 100 persons?
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 4:29am On Apr 30, 2020
dejt4u:
N =100
P = 1 - (1/365) = 364/365

Expected value = N×P = 100 × (364/365) = 99.73
That is exactly my first line of thought when I first saw the problem. I think that your answer is from the perspective of a particular member of the group. When you throw in 100 random birthdays, one expects some couple of shared birthdays and a fairly larger proportion of unshared birthdays.

Read up birthday paradox: it says that among a group of 23 persons there's an approx. 50-50 chance that there's at least a shared birthday within the group. For example, in the 2014 world cup, 16 teams out of the 32 teams had at least 2 team members sharing a birthday. The paradox is strange but true.
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 6:22pm On Apr 29, 2020
Among a group of 100 random students, what is the expected number of students who don't share birthdays with others in the group?

Note: by birthday, it means same month and day, and not necessarily year.


Assumptions: none of the students were born on February 29 and that number of days in a year is 365.

Mrshape, dejt4u, martinez39s, Richiez, mathefaro, naturalwaves, other mathematicians please help
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EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 2:28pm On Apr 05, 2020
Mrshape:
Thanks that's were missed it.
I was supposed to get 20° as the answer
Initially, I used construction and it gave 20° though I wasn't satisfied because construction gives approximate results.

I got 20° too, using sine rule mostly, and cosine rule once on triangle CDE, but solution is dependent on calculator and trig identities. I set AB=1 for obvious reasons since scaling won't affect angles.

I even got the bonus fact that CE=AB.�
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f):
cool
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 2:40pm On Apr 03, 2020
Mrshape:
Use sin rule
Please, kindly snap workings and post
EducationRe: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by jackpot(f): 12:41am On Apr 03, 2020
Hello house,

Can you kindly help to find x from the diagram?

RomanceRe: A Nairalander Weds Amid Coronavirus Crisis by jackpot(f): 12:14pm On Mar 24, 2020
Deltayankeeboi:
wink Sweet in the middle kind of wife.
what does sweet in the middle really mean?
FamilyRe: My Husband Gave Me An STD That Nearly Killed Me by jackpot(f): 11:39am On Feb 09, 2020
cococandy:
Two options

Get a boyfriend that looks similar to your husband and have a baby for him. Make your husband pay for the kid until the kid is grown and then tell him the truth.

Or.....you’re only 26, you have the world ahead of you. You can dump him and find someone else.

That’s on the off chance that you’re not another troll account created for sensational stories.

No hypocrite should quote me to talk nonsense please. Thanks.
With reference to your option 1, that's pure evil. May I never have any serious thing to do or any of my blood marry someone with this mindset. Amen.
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That news must have embarrassed the Governor grin

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