SOLUTION: Given n red balls and m blue balls and some containers, how would you distribute those balls among the containers such that the probability of picking a red ball is maximized, assu

Question 288577: Given n red balls and m blue balls and some containers, how would you distribute those balls among the containers such that the probability of picking a red ball is maximized, assuming that the user randomly chooses a container and then randomly picks a ball from that.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Given n red balls and m blue balls and some containers, how would you distribute those balls among the containers such that the probability of picking a red ball is maximized, assuming that the user randomly chooses a container and then randomly picks a ball from that.
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Put 1/3 of the red in each container. Put 1/3 of the blue in
each container.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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