SOLUTION: NCAA College Basketball Tournaments.
Assuming that every game is independent of every other game, meaning the outcome of one game does not affect the outcome of any other game,
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Question 286084: NCAA College Basketball Tournaments.
Assuming that every game is independent of every other game, meaning the outcome of one game does not affect the outcome of any other game, calculate the probablilty of any given team winning the whole tournament.(Keep in mind that in order to win the whole tournament, a team must win six games.) Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! In each game each team has a 1 in 2 chances to win. Therefore:
1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2=1/2^6=1/64
(1/2)^6=1/64=.015625=1.5625% CHANCE OF WINNING THE TOURNAMENT.
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