Albert is right - its lower than 1/2.
You're going to have to give an explanation. As your puzzle stands, I can see no way of construing that as less than 1/2.
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A riddle my brother gave me today
by bohm ina man has 2 children.
he tells you one is a boy born on a tuesday.
what is the probability the other is a boy to?.
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John Doe
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Unitarian Universalism
by changeling inhas anyone here gone that route?
i've been reading up on them and they sound interesting.
they even accept atheists!
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John Doe
I hate Axe nauseating scents. But I like their advertisements.
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A riddle my brother gave me today
by bohm ina man has 2 children.
he tells you one is a boy born on a tuesday.
what is the probability the other is a boy to?.
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John Doe
But if it is a boy, he must be born any other day than Tuesday so it only gives 6/7 chance (There already is one born on Tuesday ...)
Nothing in the story supports that the other child must be born on a day other than Tuesday. And, even if that were stipulated, it would have no bearing on the sex of the other child. That's merely superfluous information to distract you.
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A riddle my brother gave me today
by bohm ina man has 2 children.
he tells you one is a boy born on a tuesday.
what is the probability the other is a boy to?.
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John Doe
The probability of one child being a boy is 1/2. The probability of two childs being boys is 1/2 x 1/2, or 1/4. However, since we know that one child is a boy, that only leaves us with the probability of one child being a boy. So, the answer is 1/2.
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Found: Octagon Soap!
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my oldest daughter heard me speak of it, and alerted me to the fact that she'd seen some at a little, hole-in-the-wall store.. hallelujah!.
syl.
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Pink it´s my new obsession. Pink it´s not even a question. Pink on the lips of your lover, ´cause pink is the love you discover. Pink as the bing on your cherry. Pink ´cause you are so very. Pink it´s the color of passion, `cause today it just goes with the fashion
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Unitarian Universalism
by changeling inhas anyone here gone that route?
i've been reading up on them and they sound interesting.
they even accept atheists!
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John Doe
Absolutely.
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Unitarian Universalism
by changeling inhas anyone here gone that route?
i've been reading up on them and they sound interesting.
they even accept atheists!
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John Doe
I'll let you all worship me if you want--I'll even accept atheists, so long as you have money. And a tight booty.
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Found: Octagon Soap!
by snowbird in.
my oldest daughter heard me speak of it, and alerted me to the fact that she'd seen some at a little, hole-in-the-wall store.. hallelujah!.
syl.
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John Doe
I like pleasure spiked with pain and music is my aeroplane; it's my aeroplane--pleasure spiked with pain.
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Found: Octagon Soap!
by snowbird in.
my oldest daughter heard me speak of it, and alerted me to the fact that she'd seen some at a little, hole-in-the-wall store.. hallelujah!.
syl.
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John Doe
Soap is soap.
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Who is the ass that said...
by Finally-Free in"you get what you pay for"?.
a couple of years ago i bought a lawnboy mower for $750.
i probably only used it a dozen times since i'm not really big on yardwork.
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John Doe
Some considerations--the ethanol lobby has been hard at work the last few years. Most fuel now contains 10% ethanol. Why is this important? Bear with me. Ethanol is a form of alcohol, and it is hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs water.
What does this mean for the fuel sitting in your mower that you never use? Well, all air has a humidity level, which is, yes, you guessed it, moisture in the air. The alcohol in modern fuel absorbs the humidity from the air and will sour in no time. It will foul up any lawn mower that is left sitting with unused fuel in it for more than a month. Alcohol is also hard on some fuel lines, degrading them and causing them to leak in short order.
So, that mower you had with 5 year old fuel in it very possibly had better fuel in it than your newer mower. Bad fuel wrecks any engine, and you can't blame the machine for your lack of maintenance.