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Monty Hall

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The Monty Hall problem is a famous, seemingly paradoxical problem in conditional probability and reasoning using Bayes' theorem. Information affects your decision that at first glance seems as though it shouldn't. In the problem, you are on a game show, being asked to choose between three doors. Behind each door, there is either a car or a goat. You choose a door. The host, Monty Hall, picks one of the other doors, which he …

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Probability Diagram for Monty Hall Problem

Monty Hall, the host of the classic TV game show "Let's Make a Deal," died Saturday, September 30, 2017 of heart failure. He was 96.

This is the famous "Monty Hall" brain tease "Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

Monty Hall 8/25/1921 - 9/30/2017

The Monty Hall problem is a decades-old brain teaser that’s still confusing people today. It is loosely based on an old American TV game show and is named after its host, Monty Hall. At the final…