Problem Solving :: RE: Soccer game
Author: logitech
Subject: Re: Soccer game
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:37 pm (GMT -8)
| adilka wrote: |
| If a certain soccer game ended 3:2, what is the probability that the side that lost scored first? (Assume that all scoring scenarios are equiprobable) 1/4 3/10 2/5 5/12 1/2 OA: C Would love to know where logic in choosing E went wrong. After all, first goal is like a coin toss, any team could have scored it equally, so it’s a 50/50 chance. |
What a great question!!!
First of all, the flaw in your logic is since we know the score we can have N different scanorios to end up at 3:2 and since 3 is not equal to 2 there will more chances for winning team to score the first goal.
Actually it will be 2/(2+3) for the losing team and 3/(2+3) for the winning team!
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