{"id":842,"date":"2018-12-24T00:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T04:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=842"},"modified":"2018-12-24T00:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T04:27:44","slug":"the-wine-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"The Wine Tavern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One Saturday evening in late winter, Jason, Melanie and Bob were\nsitting around a cozy table at the newly opened <em>Bacchus Wine Tavern<\/em>, that was promoting a novel wine pouring system\nconsisting of five different types of wine and a random wine selector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConsidering this new wine pouring system, what do you guys figure is\nthe probability that we two get an identical wine in each of our glasses and Melanie\ngets one with a different wine type?\u201d said Jason with an impish, quizzical\ngrin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood question,\u201d replied Bob, \u201clet\u2019s see how it goes after we\u2019ve gone\nthrough some rounds,\u201d he suggested with eager anticipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy that time, I don\u2019t think any of us will be able to figure it out,\u201d\nlaughed Melanie, and hailed a waiter to bring the first set of triple glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What would you say is the\nprobability that Melanie, gets a glass of wine that is different and Bob and\nJason get the same wine?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About how many rounds do you figure\nwould be needed for Melanie to get her odd glass of wine?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-842\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=842&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on 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