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Chapter 1 The Probability in Everyday Life
Chapter 1 The Probability in Everyday LifeIn This Chapter Recognizing the prevalence and impact of Probability in your Everyday life Taking different approaches to finding probabilities Steering clear of common Probability misconceptionsYou ve heard it, thought it, and said it before: What are the odds of thathappening? Someone wins the lottery not once, but twice. You acciden-tally run into a friend you haven t seen since high school during a vacation inFlorida. A cop pulls you over the one time you forget to put your seatbelt you wonder .. what are the odds of this happening? That s what thisbook is about: figuring, interpreting, and understanding how to quantify therandom phenomena of life . But it also helps you realize the limitations ofprobability and why probabilities can take you only so this Chapter , you observe the impact of Probability on your Everyday lifeand some of the ways people come up with probabilities.
The Probability in Everyday Life In This Chapter Recognizing the prevalence and impact of probability in your everyday life ... on the complexity of the situation and what exactly is possible to quantify. Some probabilities are very difficult to figure, such as the probability of a
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