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Lisa
05-10-03, 06:27 PM
Brad works for a packaging company. One day, he received four separate orders and accidently mixed up the addresses, so he applied the address labels at random. What is the probability that exactly three packages were correctly labeled?

eyespy
05-10-03, 08:04 PM
0

beth wallbank
05-10-03, 09:26 PM
if they were all the same product then they were all correct.

Dino
05-10-03, 09:44 PM
Eyespy is right .....good one :)

Tim and Julie B
05-11-03, 01:49 AM
3 in 16 I believe. whatever the percentage is for that.

DragnDrop
05-11-03, 07:27 AM
He sounds like someone I used to worik with :)

Sorry, but as has been stated - if 3 are correct, the last one just has to be correct too. That means "exactly" 3 correct will never happen - 0, 1, 2 or 4 correct, but never 3.

SnowSnake
05-11-03, 08:16 AM
I'm with eyespy :P 0%

Lisa
05-11-03, 10:43 AM
Yes, the chances are none, as explained by both vic and dragndrop. Yay eyespy.