we're debating this at work...and none of us have taken stats for years so we're rusty:

let's say im selling a car.

there's a 5% chance that ill sell it in march.
there's a 10% chance ill sell it in april.

what's the percentage that ill sell it in that two month period?

2/13/2008 3:03:54 PM

15%

2/13/2008 3:06:00 PM

%7.5

2/13/2008 3:06:55 PM

ah....i got it now.

[Edited on February 13, 2008 at 3:22 PM. Reason : f]

2/13/2008 3:08:02 PM

you obviously haven't taken arithmetic in years either

2/13/2008 3:08:12 PM

2/13/2008 3:08:53 PM

^^^ I guess that makes sense. maybe its not 15% then. It just sounded good to me.

2/13/2008 3:09:52 PM

15% of the time it sells everytime

2/13/2008 3:09:57 PM

7.5%?


[Edited on February 13, 2008 at 3:13 PM. Reason : 15/200]

2/13/2008 3:10:12 PM

lol

2/13/2008 3:10:30 PM

10%

but what if you're trying to sell the car on a treadmill?

2/13/2008 3:10:43 PM

yeah, im pretty embarassed that i dont know this.

well, not really, but it is pretty basic.



[Edited on February 13, 2008 at 3:11 PM. Reason : f]

2/13/2008 3:11:07 PM

love the descriptive thread title

2/13/2008 3:11:09 PM

2/13/2008 3:11:59 PM

14.5%

2/13/2008 3:22:36 PM

there is a %190 chance it will sell!

2/13/2008 3:23:39 PM

So if there's a 50 percent chance that a guy is going to kill me one month, and a 100 percent chance that he's going to kill me the second month, I have a 75 percent chance of dying during those two months ... because that's how it works, right?

2/13/2008 3:31:35 PM