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Old 08-12-2007, 12:28 PM
AaronBrown AaronBrown is offline
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Default Re: A problem over morning coffee

That is the probability that the first B are all black, but that is not required for the problem. We only require that B of the first B+n be black, for any n < A. You have solved for n = 0.

You can do this problem without any combinatorics at all, in a simple one-line argument.
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