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Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by Martinez39s(m): 12:16pm On Apr 30, 2020
dejt4u:
you can your expected values from probability.. It is even simpler in this case since our N is 100
Well, I am not deep into probability (and combinatorics.) I assumed the question solely had to deal with permutation. grin
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by Mechanics96(m): 12:39pm On Apr 30, 2020
dejt4u:
but in reality, this is not valid

Exactly what I have solved here, *just added that the probability of having at least a pair of students whose birthday is the same will be:
1-0.0000003073 which is 0.99999... And that's approximately 1.

So if we pick out a pair of students at random assuming that they are sure to share birthdays (probably 1) then we have 98 students left, out of which there may still be some pairs of same birthdays. There's got to be how to get a specific number of students who are likely not to share birthdays... Maybe someone can help figure this out.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by ifada123: 1:04pm On Apr 30, 2020
Martinez39s:
Jackpot never mentioned anything about probability. How did probability get involved in the solution?
To get the number of people you need to probability
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by ifada123: 1:06pm On Apr 30, 2020
Mechanics96:


Exactly what I have solved here, *just added that the probability of having at least a pair of students whose birthday is the same will be:
1-0.0000003073 which is 0.99999... And that's approximately 1.

So if we pick out a pair of students at random assuming that they are sure to share birthdays (probably 1) then we have 98 students left, out of which there may still be some pairs of same birthdays. There's got to be how to get a specific number of students who are likely not to share birthdays... Maybe someone can help figure this out.

It has already been answers now.
It is unlikely to find a student how do not share birth date
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 1:47pm On Apr 30, 2020
Martinez39s:
Jackpot never mentioned anything about probability. How did probability get involved in the solution?
Lmao. She used term expected number in a group of 100 which points towards probability. If you need to get the number out of 100,just multiply the answer by 100. E. G if you have (1/4) =0.25
as a probability which means 1 out of every 4. If you now want to get the 1,you will need to multiply 4 by 0.25.So,multiply 100 by the answer to get the figure. You won't still get up to even 1. What does that say? It means that the probability that no 2 persons will share same birthday out of the 100 is negligible.

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Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by dejt4u(m): 1:50pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:

Lmao. She used term expected number in a group of 100 which points towards probability. If you need to get the number out of 100,just multiply the answer by 100. E. G if you have (1/4) =0.25
as a probability which means 1 out of every 4. If you now want to get the 1,you will need to multiply 4 by 0.25.So,multiply 100 by the answer to get the figure. You won't still get up to even 1. What does that say? It means that the probability that no 2 persons will share same birthday out of the 100 is negligible.
always proud of you. You're a good teacher. Keep it up bro!
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 1:53pm On Apr 30, 2020
Mechanics96:


Exactly what I have solved here, *just added that the probability of having at least a pair of students whose birthday is the same will be:
1-0.0000003073 which is 0.99999... And that's approximately 1.

So if we pick out a pair of students at random assuming that they are sure to share birthdays (probably 1) then we have 98 students left, out of which there may still be some pairs of same birthdays. There's got to be how to get a specific number of students who are likely not to share birthdays... Maybe someone can help figure this out.

If the probability of having 2 students with the same birthday like you said is almost 1 which I agree with. THEN, the probability of not having 2 same birthdays will be extremely close to 0.

Moreover,the fact that there are 100 physical students does not mean that to get the figure from the group, you must have a digit or something. Your probability can even tend far far towards 0. Check my solution on the previous page.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 1:55pm On Apr 30, 2020
dejt4u:
always proud of you. You're a good teacher. Keep it up bro!
Thanks bro. I do appreciate you very much as well.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 2:00pm On Apr 30, 2020
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Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 2:10pm 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)^100 x 364 P100
=

Almost everyone will share same birth day

The last number for the 100th was supposed to be 266 and not 265. Your solution is similar to mine just that you were rushing when solving.

You were supposed to compute as (365!)/(265!*365100).
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by ifada123: 2:53pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:


The last number for the 100th was supposed to be 266 and not 265. Your solution is similar to mine just that you were rushing when solving.

You were supposed to compute as (365!)/(265!*365100).
I observed it
It was supposed to be (1/365)^100 x356P100

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Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by Mechanics96(m): 6:47pm On Apr 30, 2020
naturalwaves:


If the probability of having 2 students with the same birthday like you said is almost 1 which I agree with. THEN, the probability of not having 2 same birthdays will be extremely close to 0.

Moreover,the fact that there are 100 physical students does not mean that to get the figure from the group, you must have a digit or something. Your probability can even tend far far towards 0. Check my solution on the previous page.
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I saw your solution, I solved it same way too.

Thanks for adding this �
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 7:28pm On Apr 30, 2020
Mechanics96:
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I saw your solution, I solved it same way too.

Thanks for adding this �
Great!
Re: 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.

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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?
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 8:08pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:
I think that you are solving a different question cheesy wink

The question says expected number of unshared birthdays among 100 students?
The answer I got is the probability that there won't be an unshared birthday.
Multiply the answer by 100 to get your answer. That's a negligible figure as it is far far less than 1.
Re: 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

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Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 8:16pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:



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
The question is not as basic as you see. 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 . How many birth days are shared in the document?
Re: 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.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 8:20pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:



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.
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.
Re: 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.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 8:26pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:
Sure.

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.
A lot. I just considered the first 100 so that I will not deviate from the question.
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.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 8:32pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:



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
You should also be careful not to confuse "unshared birthdays" with "number of students with unshared birthdays" The question requires the former.
Re: 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
Re: 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? wink
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by Mrshape: 9:05pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:
I think that you are solving a different question cheesy wink

The question says expected number of unshared birthdays among 100 students?
He did the correct thing sis
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by Martinez39s(m): 9:12pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:
I think that you are solving a different question cheesy wink

The question says expected number of unshared birthdays among 100 students?
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
365P265 = 365!/265!

•• 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
365100 – (365P265) = 365100 – 365!/265!

I repeat, I still don't understand your question except I presume what you could possibly mean.
Re: 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.
Re: 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?
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 9:25pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:
the birthdays belong to somebody na grin grin cheesy

What's the difference? wink
This is the difference.

20 students can have shared birthdays but
Shared birthdays can be just 1 if the 20 were born on exactly same day.
20 students can even have 3 shared birthdays if for example 4 of them have same day, 13 have another day and 3 have another day. That still gives 20 students with a shared birthday but only 3 shared birthdays.
Re: 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.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by naturalwaves: 9:28pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:

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.
That means that 15 players share birthdays but only 13 birthdays are shared.
Re: Nairaland Mathematics Clinic by Mrshape: 9:30pm On Apr 30, 2020
jackpot:
His answer is correct but I think it is not the direct answer to the question I posed.

I know you were excepting an whole number but unfortunately it is almost impossible for 1out of 100 people not to share birth date.
Check Wikipedia birth date paradox they are constant values

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