{"id":904,"date":"2019-04-29T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:38:53","slug":"returning-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Returning Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Barnaby of the Barnaby and Bartholomew East India Trading Co. was\nworried as none of his ships had returned so far this month of May, 1776.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lately, statistics were not very promising. Only six out of ten ships\nwere returning, whether due to bad weather or piracy or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five ships were due to return this month, but Barnaby could manage to\nsurvive somehow if three ships entered port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What would you say was the\nprobability that exactly three of Barnaby\u2019s ships returned?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And the probability that at least\nthree of Barnaby\u2019s ships returned?<\/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-904\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-904\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-904\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnaby of the Barnaby and Bartholomew East India Trading Co. was worried as none of his ships had returned so far this month of May, 1776. Lately, statistics were not very promising. Only six out of ten ships were returning, whether due to bad weather or piracy or both. Five ships were due to return [&hellip;]<\/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-904\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-904\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-904\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=904&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[159,302,303],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zDaf-eA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":915,"url":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=915","url_meta":{"origin":904,"position":0},"title":"The Square Estate","date":"May 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"As Jack entered the Blue Swan caf\u00e9 that, as usual, was filled with the most enticing coffee aromas wafting among the many occupied tables, he saw Jill sitting by a window fixedly peering at a manuscript. \u201cWhat are you studying so intently, Jill?\u201d asked Jack. \u201cLooks like your life depended\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Algebra&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":182,"url":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=182","url_meta":{"origin":904,"position":1},"title":"The Crooked Minter","date":"August 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"King Midas suspected that his minter of gold coins, Horatio, was stealing from the mint by inserting false coins. 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