April 2012
March 2012
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Mega Millions Math:... →
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You would like to figure out the approximate probability that there are no jackpot winners for the Mega Millions. On March 27, 2012 4,715,569 tickets from the total pool of tickets were winners. Approximately 1 out of 40 randomly chosen tickets are winners. Therefore we can approximate that 40 *…
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The Atlantic: Why It's Cheaper to Go to Harvard... →
theatlantic:
If you are the child of a middle class family in California, it is probably cheaper for you to attend college at Harvard than at a nearby public university.
You read correctly. Cheaper.
The Bay Area News Group recently crunched the numbers using a family of four making $130,000 a year. Between…
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