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Its main claim to fame is that after its solution was discussed in Marylin vos Savant's "Ask Marylin" question-and-answer column of the Parade magazine in 1990, many readers including several math professors wrote in to declare that her solution was wrong, thereby making public fools of themselves. |
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The problem's main claim to fame is that after its solution was discussed in Marylin vos Savant's "Ask Marylin" question-and-answer column of Parade magazine in 1990, many readers including several math professors wrote in to declare that her solution was wrong, thereby making public fools of themselves. |
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The answer is no. The reason: a switcher in this game will lose if and only if neither of two initial choices of the two contestants was correct. How likely is that? Two-thirds. A sticker will win in those 2/3 of the cases. So stickers will win twice as often as switchers. |
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The answer is no. The reason: a switcher in this game will lose if and only if either of two initial choices of the two contestants was correct. How likely is that? Two-thirds. A sticker will win in those 2/3 of the cases. So stickers will win twice as often as switchers. |
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