{"id":4386,"date":"2025-05-10T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2025-05-10T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:31:38","slug":"whose-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/10\/whose-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Bullet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4383\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whose-Bullet-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whose-Bullet-Fig2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whose-Bullet-Fig2-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Here is a probability <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/math-games\/i-am-not-3-times-as-good-as-you-aba395947abb\">problem<\/a> from BL\u2019s Weekly Math Games.\u00a0 Normally I am not a fan of such problems, but this one seemed fairly straight-forward for a change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit the target 75% of the time. You hit the target 25% of the time.\u00a0 We aim at the same time, and only one bullet hits.\u00a0 What\u2019s the probability it came from me?<\/p>\n<p>Now as for this puzzle, it would be tempting to think that I am 3 times as good at hitting the target, but I am not!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whose-Bullet-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whose-Bullet-250116.pdf\">Whose Bullet<\/a> for a solution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a probability problem from BL\u2019s Weekly Math Games.\u00a0 Normally I am not a fan of such problems, but this one seemed fairly straight-forward for a change. \u201cI hit the target 75% of the time. You hit the target 25% of the time.\u00a0 We aim at the same time, and only one bullet hits.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[274,138],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-bl-puzzles","tag-probability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4387,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}