Birds on a Wire

Subject: a probability puzzle
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:37:48 -0700
From: Mark Galecki

Alex,

birds on wire

Mark Galecki


If you are reading this, your browser is not set to run Java applets. Try IE11 or Safari and declare the site http:///www.cut-the-knot.org as trusted in the Java setup.

birds on a wire


What if applet does not run?

(The applet runs a specified number of trials for every number of birds between the specified minimum and maximum values.)

Four solutions below come from a discussion at the CTKExchange forum.

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