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LSAT tommorow.
Nervous? Yes.
Crapping in pants? Pretty much.
Prepared? No.
Studied? Nada.
But let's look on the optimistic side. There are 101 multiple choice questions with 5 answer choices each. So that's what? Uh...does anyone remember their combinatorics? I think that's 101C5? Lemme plug that into the calculator. That's uh... Oh crap.
Chances of me scoring perfect on the LSAT: 1 in 79,208,745.
Do you know how impossible that is?!?! Ok. Lemme give you some other statistics for comparison:
Chances of me winning the lottery jackpot: 1 in 13,983,816.
Chances of getting hit by lightning: 1 in 600,000.
Chances of dying because of a volcano eruption: 1 in 80,000.
Chances of being murdered: 1 in 200.
Chances of dying in an automobile accident: 1 in 80.
Chances of going to prison: 1 in 20.
Chances of getting cancer: 1 in 3.
Crappy fish sticks. I'm up against big odds.
No wait. Hold on. Am I supposed to use combinatorics here? I don't think so... (You see??? This is why I suck at math/stats). Ok there are 101 questions. Each question has five possible choices. So I have 1 in 5 chances of getting it right per question. So you would think the chances are closer to 1 in 505. Hmm...is that it?
That's not bad odds, actually.
Heh. Who am I kidding? I'm still so boned.
Posted by Dave at November 30, 2001 02:35 PMi think it's 101P5, or 1/(5^101) (1/5 chance per question, 101 questions)...comes out to something like 1 in 3.944x10^70 chance. ouch.
Posted by: fool on February 24, 2002 11:29 PMAre you SURE about that cancer one, AND the PRISON one?? that does not seem very possible to me. Oh, what is more likely, falling out of bed and dying or getting hit by lightning and dying?? please email me the answer! thanks -Ash
Posted by: Ashley on January 9, 2005 02:31 PM