I was watching UK BBC television and a show called Bargain Hunt. It's about two teams of two people who search for antiques to sell at auction for a profit. Both teams are given £300 to spend on the items of their choice. The winning team is the one that makes the most money.
Anyway, at the end of the show it was discovered that one member of each team had exactly the same birth date. This often happens, but then it also turned out that the remaining members of the opposing teams also had the same birthdays and, what's more, it was their birthday on the day the show was being filmed.
It would have been interesting to have found out if the two teams also had other connections as well, odds on they may have.
P.S. In any group of 23 people the odds on having two people with the same birthday is only 2 to 1 - a 50% chance. Details on Wikipedia here.
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We get that show over here in Oz,but I don't watch it that much.
ReplyDelete"In any group of 23 people the odds on having two people with the same birthday is only 2 to 1 - a 50% chance."
But what are the odds in a group of 23 people on having two people with the same birthday on the 23 rd ?-)
Ah, that's a much more difficult question!
DeleteGood one! Curious about those odds, too.
ReplyDeleteGood one! I'm curious about those odds, too.
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