You're in a room with 100 people. You're all asked to write down a number between 0 and 100 on a piece of paper.
The numbers will be averaged and whoever guesses 2/3rds of the average is the winner.
What number would you choose?
2007-02-08 13:07:53 · 13 answers · asked by ? 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
care to give your reasons for choosing that number? :)
2007-02-08 15:41:59 · update #1
42
2007-02-08 13:11:02 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
34...... The mean would be around 50 as the range is 0-100. Also, many number bonds within 100 = 100.
51 is close to 50. 51 divided by 3=17, ie, 1/3 =17, 2/3=34 Therefore I choose 34!!!!!
2007-02-12 19:23:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
20
2007-02-08 21:12:06 · answer #3 · answered by britt b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are to infer that the number written upon the piece of paper is every players guess, 'game theorists' say to pick 0. But, I'll just pick the number 11, because it's 1/3 of 2/3's of the expected value if everyone represented gaussian distribution...which of course only makes sense from a bad statisticians point of view..
2007-02-09 02:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by asleep 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
22
2007-02-08 21:14:56 · answer #5 · answered by *KiM* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
32
2007-02-08 21:46:31 · answer #6 · answered by askiluna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
46
2007-02-08 21:16:56 · answer #7 · answered by wyldeyezz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
65
2007-02-08 22:01:05 · answer #8 · answered by seb. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
67
2007-02-08 23:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by Da S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
14 my favorite number
2007-02-08 21:11:19 · answer #10 · answered by Kinomak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋