I figure this is a trivial question since it's right in the beginning of the book but I get a different answer from that of the answer in the back of the book. I get .0847 while in the correct answer is .0828.
Anyways here is the question:
If birthdays are equally likely to fall on any day, what is the probability that a person chosen at random has a birthday in January?
January has 31 days and there are 365 days in a year so 31365 would be p for a non leap year. On a leap year it's 31366. Since a leap year occurs once every four years I thought I'd get my answer by doing:
31365∗34+31366∗14
Any suggestions?
Answer
Since January has 31 days, the most days a month can have, and 112=0.0833…, there is no obvious way to get a figure as low as 0.0828.
Either it is a trick question or you have spotted an error.
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