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### How do I plot the likelyhood of an event occurring after X chances?

Let's say there's a 1/10 chance of something happening. Given 1 chance, there's a 0.1 chance of the thing happening. Given 2 chances, there's a 0.1 + (0.9 * 0.1) chance of the thing happening. ...
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### Can three sticks make a triangle? - statistical method of solving

I was challenged to provide as many solutions as I could to the triangle problem: Given a stick of arbitrary length broken into three pieces of independently random lengths, what is the probability ...
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### Find the subgroup of $S_4$ generated by $(1,2,4)$. What is the order of $(1,2,4)$?

I am literally just being introduced to group theory this is all new. I know that the permutations that arise are $(4,1),(1,2),(2,4),(1,2,4)$ This is the same as saying that $4$ goes to $1$ then $1$ ...
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### Is this possible(pythagorean triples)

My maths teacher gave me some problems and one of them was that I have a right triangle with side 6 and area 30.. So my questions are: 1.Is this even possible and 2.should I assume that most of the ...