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Football Pool Probability Trivia Q

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  1. sheets sheets is offline

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    Dec 17th, 2010 (12/17/2010 3:54am)

    There are 35 bowl games.

    There is a pool where an entrant must pick 17 of these games to select, pick a team from those 17 games, and allocate 3 of those picks to count double.

    How many entrants are possible before there is a duplicate entry?
     
  2. DonkDon DonkDon is offline

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    Dec 17th, 2010 (12/17/2010 4:01am) in reply to sheets

    Wow it's a stupid high number....Brianyut?
  3. towman1 towman1 is offline

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    Dec 17th, 2010 (12/17/2010 4:02am) in reply to sheets

    tree fiddy?
  4. Skyroller Skyroller is offline

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    Dec 17th, 2010 (12/17/2010 4:10am) in reply to towman1

    (35 choose 17) (ways we can pick games) * (2^17) (ways we can pick winners) * (17 choose 3) (ways to pick who counts double)

    = 4537567650 * 131072 * 680

    =404,428,685,574,144,000 different ways. GL.
  5. AmSlim22 AmSlim22 is offline

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    Dec 17th, 2010 (12/17/2010 7:59am) in reply to resilient

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    Edited By: AmSlim22 Dec 17th, 2010 at 08:17 AM
    Reason: wasnt happy with my joke.
     
  6. wild_ride wild_ride is offline

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    Dec 17th, 2010 (12/17/2010 8:22am) in reply to AmSlim22

    change it hamburgers instead of bowls... you need to motivate OTers
  7. SCTrojans SCTrojans is offline

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    Dec 17th, 2010 (12/17/2010 8:24am) in reply to wild_ride

    nerd
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