A group of scientists is testing the learning ability of monkeys. They want to see if monkeys
Question:
a. They want to see if the monkey can accurately type the entire first line of a famous poem written by Alexander Pushkin:
The poem has 21 characters in this first line (the scientists do not take spaces into account at all). What is the probability that the monkey types all 21 characters, in order, correctly? (He just types the keys independently, at random.)
b. Next, the scientists put the monkey in front of a 26-character English keyboard and see if he can type the phrase in English. It happens to also take 21 characters when written in English: "A MAGIC MOMENT I REMEMBER" (again, they do not take spaces into account). What is the probability that the monkey types all 21 characters, in order, correctly?
c. What is the ratio of these two probabilities, i.e., how much more likely is the monkey to type the 21 character phrase correctly in English versus in Russian? Give the ratio of the two probabilities that were calculated in the previous two parts of this problem.
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Introduction to Probability
ISBN: 978-0716771098
1st edition
Authors: Mark Daniel Ward, Ellen Gundlach