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Samir
Theoretical Probability Problem?
A friend and I have been debating about this for about a week now. The question itself is conceptual at best, but here's the context we put it in:
A 5 minute long conversation is heard 5 times. Each time, half of it is heard (any 2.5 minute span within the five minutes). What's the probability of having heard the entire conversation?
My reasoning is that you can divide the five minutes into infinitely many infinitesimally small intervals. You need to hear the very first of these tiny intervals to have heard the entire thing. There are an infinite number of other intervals and therefore the probably of hearing the first interval--and consequently, the entire conversation--is 1/infinity.
What are your thoughts on this?
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