{"id":3985,"date":"2013-03-04T23:32:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T04:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:15:53","slug":"solved-two-girls-on-an-island-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3985","title":{"rendered":"Solved: Two girls on an island problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HERE ARE YOUR ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/islnd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3996\" alt=\"islnd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/islnd.png\" width=\"483\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2013\/02\/26\/two-girls-on-an-island-problems\/\">Last week<\/a> we posted two fun probability problems. If you haven&#8217;t given them the old college try do so now, because this week we present you with the answer, provided by the man who supplied the problems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/110765856X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=110765856X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=decisionscien-20\">author<\/a> and Professor of Operations Research and Probability <a href=\"http:\/\/personal.vu.nl\/h.c.tijms\/\">Henk Tijms<\/a>. Voila.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3987\" alt=\"wos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wos.png\" width=\"486\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this kind of thing? Try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2010\/05\/28\/tuesdays-child-is-full-of-probability-puzzles\/\">Tuesday&#8217;s child is full of probability problems<\/a> problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we posted two fun probability problems. If you haven&#8217;t given them the old college try do so now, because this week we present you with the answer. Voila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[495,402,526,522,524,523,527,525,86,521],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-bayes","tag-bayesian","tag-boys","tag-calculate","tag-children","tag-game","tag-girls","tag-names","tag-probability","tag-puzzles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-12h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}