document.write( "Question 1163823: A box contains six discs numbered 1 to 6. Find for each integer k from 3 to
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document.write( "You didn't state that correctly, because what you asked for,
\"the probability that the number on two discs have a sum equal to k\"
the answer is 1 for every value of k, because it's ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that\r\n" );
document.write( "there are two discs in the box whose numbers on them have sum equal to \r\n" );
document.write( "each integer k=3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the probability in every case is 1.  Surely that's not what you are \r\n" );
document.write( "asked to find.\r\n" );
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document.write( "What you didn't state was that \r\n" );
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document.write( "YOU ARE GOING TO DRAW TWO DISCS OUT OF THE BOX!!!\r\n" );
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document.write( "If you don't draw any discs out of the box, the probability is 1 that some\r\n" );
document.write( "pair of them in the box have each of those sums.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So resubmit the problem, stating that you are going to draw two of the discs\r\n" );
document.write( "out of the box, not just leave all 6 of them in the box.  Get it?\r\n" );
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