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MR J. MITCHELL propounds the following question :— " If twenty-four persons, equally conversant with a subject, hold two opinions respecting it in the proportion of five to one • whatis the probability that if from the twenty'four names twelve of them be drawn at random, the twelve so drawn shall be unanimous ; that is, the probability is 1 in what number?" ANSWERS. ME, MITCHELL sends an answer to Mr Beverly's Mars question, wbicb. we will bold over for a week, in hopes that some other answers may be received. N. S.—The word " parlour " has almost ceased to correspond with its original signification which was the room usually occupied by the family. Now it means the apartment kep
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Otago Witness, Issue 1355, 17 November 1877, Page 13
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