EASY statistical problem that seem very HARD at first glance

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  • no gnu taxes
    SBR Wise Guy
    • 08-18-11
    • 805

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    EASY statistical problem that seem very HARD at first glance
    Imagine a number of baseball pitchers standing randomly in a baseball field. For ease of argument, imagine both the number of pitchers and the size of the size of the field are infinite.

    Okay, at a given signal, each throws a fastball at the head of the nearest pitcher and kills him. The question: After the throws, what portion of the pitchers will still be alive?

    While this is not a hard problem, it will require a basic knowledge of calculus priniciples or at least pre-calculus elementary functions knowledge to solve it independently.
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