Congratulations! You have guessed correctly in the Lenny Conundrum game (round 221). You have won 793 NP! Because you were in the first 250 to guess correctly, you also have been awarded a Ten Dubloon Coin, and receive a trophy and the Lenny Conundrum avatar! Yours Sincerely, The Neopets Team! After all the guess i posted was right. Congrats if you won!!!
... i wasn't the first! -.- Dear *, Congratulations! You have guessed correctly in the Lenny Conundrum game (round 221). You have won 793 NP! Yours Sincerely, The Neopets Team!
Suppose you have five six-sided dice. Each die has the following letters on the faces: E, O, I, Y, K, and R. What are the odds that, upon rolling the five dice, you would be able to spell the name of a Neopet species with some or all of the letters displayed on the dice? Assume each die can only be used once in the word; for example, if you rolled "A,A,B,C,D" you could use A twice, but B, C, and D only once. Please submit your answer as a whole number, rounded to the nearest whole number. (i.e. if the odds are 1 in 100, submit the answer "100".) Any ideas? I have no idea how to go about calculating this one!
E - Y - R - I - E No idea how to do the odds thing lol. 1/5 chance to get 1 E. Then the other, so 1/10? So would it be .. 1/25?
17 (or 1/17 chance) There are a total of 7776 dice outcomes (6^5 = 7776)... And only four neopets can be spelled with those 6 letters... Koi Kiko Kyrii Eyrie So using permutations, here are the number of ways to spell those four neopets... Kyrii (5x4x3x2x1 = 120) Eyrie (5x4x3x2x1 = 120) Kiko (4x3x2x1x6 = 144) Koi (3x2x1x6x6 = 216) That totals 600 but because every combination of Kiko also spells Koi, 144 needs to be subtracted from 600 which leaves 456... 456 of 7776 is approximately 1 out of 17... Or so I think...
Yep, the math and such looks good (although I scanned it quickly) so I submitted. Trustin' you, man! XD
haha, i used to post on other random forums, hoping for some braniac to help solve. but with the presence of this thread... .tadaa!
cause there are five dice, each with 6 possible outcomes....so that's 6x6x6x6x6 or 6^5 which equals 7776
Someone on another forum came up with 1/177... and said 17 was too low of an answer. I dunno though-- math's not my thing! 17 works for me, haha.
ehhh...I rethought the problem today and I think that answer might be wrong ...I came up with something like 1 in 3 chance, which seems kinda high...but I tried it out with a real dice and got 5 out of 17 (1 out of 3.4)... :?sorry if I'm wrong...