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Old 12-01-2007, 01:38 AM
pzhon pzhon is offline
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Default Re: Burning Cards On-line

Burning cards makes no difference.

When the burned cards is the A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], your chance drops to 0. When the burned card is not, your chance rises to 1/9. 9/10 * 1/9 + 1/10 * 0 = 1/10. These possibilities exactly cancel.
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Old 12-01-2007, 01:41 AM
Geode Geode is offline
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Default Re: Burning Cards On-line

You were faster.

OP, pzhon is right. If you want to understand better the formula pzhon used read about conditional probabilities (it justifies the multiplications)and disjoint events (it justifies the addition).
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Old 12-01-2007, 01:57 AM
GeeBeeQED GeeBeeQED is offline
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GeeBee; Strike one

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