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There are 23 people in a room. What is the probability that two of them share a birthday?

If the probability is x % x \% , Enter your answer as x \lfloor x \rfloor .

Notation : \lfloor \cdot \rfloor denotes the floor function .


The answer is 50.

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Let the probability two of them share a B'day be P(A).
P ( A ) = 1 P ( A ) = 1 n = 0 22 ( 365 n 365 ) = 1 0.492702765 0.5073 P(A) = 1 - P'(A) = 1 - \displaystyle \prod_{n=0}^{22}\left(\dfrac{365-n}{365}\right) = 1 - 0.492702765 \approx 0.5073

x = 100 × 0.5073 = 50 x = \left \lfloor 100 \times 0.5073 \right \rfloor = 50

Exactly Same Way, How did you compute that product?

Kushagra Sahni - 5 years, 3 months ago

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wolfram alpha.

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 2 months ago
Tran Quoc Dat
Mar 26, 2016

We calculate P ( A ) P'(A) as the probability that no pairs share the same birthday.

There are 23 × 22 2 = 253 \frac{23 \times 22}{2}=253 pairs. The probability that 2 people have different birthday is 364 365 \frac{364}{365} . The probability that no pairs among 253 253 pairs share the same birthday is P ( A ) = ( 364 365 ) 253 49.27 % P'(A)=(\frac{364}{365})^{253}\approx 49.27\% . So, the probability that there exists 2 people share the same birthday is P ( A ) = 1 P ( A ) 50.72 % P(A)=1-P'(A)\approx 50.72\% . The answer is 50 \boxed{50} .

Rishik Jain
Feb 19, 2016

This is perhaps known as the birthday paradox

i have already posted this question by the name od birthday paradox

nilav rudra - 5 years, 3 months ago

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