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[jeremym480]

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Tying back to the Funko discussion:

For my fellow comic book fans, the first wave of Infinity War Funkos is coming soon...

http://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/02/...ll-line-image/

I have to have that 10 inch Thanos...

Damn, you Funko... Just when I finish one collection it's time to start another.

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[notsobabybombers]

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The Thanos one caught my eye, too.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I have to have that 10 inch Thanos...

On a serious note that display case is nice. Where did you pick it up?

[jeremym480]

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On a serious note that display case is nice. Where did you pick it up?

Michael's is running a 50% special on those. Last week I grabbed three myself. Here's a link:

http://www.michaels.com/studio-decor.../10174362.html

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Half the answers in this thread are links to Michael's.

So then I'll ask you decorating divas a question. I want to display albums on the wall about my record player. I want to be able to change them regularly so no cases. What I envision in my mind are thin, shallow shelves, but I am not having any luck finding anything close.

[callmetaternuts]

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Your wife.

I mean, she had one job.....

I thought about going that route, but the couch sounds better than the car, the floor, the pool, or the driveway.

[jeremym480]

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Half the answers in this thread are links to Michael's.

So then I'll ask you decorating divas a question. I want to display albums on the wall about my record player. I want to be able to change them regularly so no cases. What I envision in my mind are thin, shallow shelves, but I am not having any luck finding anything close.

Girl, if it ain't at Michael's or Ikea, then you're just going to have to make one yourself.

[AuburnAlumni]

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First post in 3 years. I'm actually proud of myself for remembering my login info.

What's up bitches.

[kehlis]

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What's up bitches.

UCF are National Champions. It's been a long time since you've been around.

[LowerWolf]

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For all the folks that like Funko Pops...

whatever you do, don't look up QMX figures.

Michael's is running a 50% special on those. Last week I grabbed three myself. Here's a link:

http://www.michaels.com/studio-decor.../10174362.html

You guys aren't helping my budget this month.

[Blzer]

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My math student has given me a "probability" problem that has stumped me:

There are two families, family A and family B. Both of them have two children. Family A has a boy who plays football, and the other child likes to swim. Family B has a 5-year old boy and a newborn. Which family is more likely to have a girl? Why?

Here have been my guesses so far, just pasted from my e-mails back to him:

Spoiler

I'll guess that it is Family A. My reasoning will be because if one likes to play football, it would have been possible or likely that the other would like to play football as well. Instead, the other individual does an activity that is far different than the other, in that the influence of one didn't seem to promote the influence of the other (plus we don't know how old that second child is, which could be older than that boy).

I don't truly truly believe that, but that is the fairest reasoning I could come up with. That doesn't necessarily mean girls like to swim more than guys or anything like that, but whatever haha.

He said that was wrong. Then I looked more at the age factor and made my second attempt:

Spoiler

Well then my next best guess is that because Family A's children has a chance of being twins, and you are more likely to have identical twins than fraternal twins, that it means there is that small increased likelihood that both of them are boys instead of one boy and one girl... so Family B is more likely to have a girl haha.

Also said was incorrect, that I was overthinking it, but that it did have to do with the ages. So my final crack so far is this:

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Since Family A has "established" children (so much so that they already have interests which require a little more physical exertion than a toddler's walk), it is safe to assume that they are at least somewhat older... even if seven years old or so, if not older than that.

Anyway, maybe there is something that statistically shows (I have no idea) a family is more likely willing to have another child if they would like the other gender, and said family is willing to settle if they have one child of each gender.

As Family B just had their newborn and the probability is about 50/50 of being a girl, it's more likely that Family A has a girl because it has been quite some years before they have birthed another child, perhaps because they are settled on the outcome of their own... a boy and a girl.

... to which he also said is not only incorrect, but I am still way overthinking it. I mean, clearly I am. I'm aware of that fact. That's because I can't think of any simple answers to this.

Maybe it's one of those kinds of problems that doesn't require a math mind, but one of those "Five-year-old's answered this with a higher success rates than adults." I mean I don't actually think there is any sort of probability involved (not that anything I did was real-real probability to begin with, but still).

Can anyone else take a crack at this, tell me what I'm missing or go for your own answer here?

[kehlis]

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My math student has given me a "probability" problem that has stumped me:

There are two families, family A and family B. Both of them have two children. Family A has a boy who plays football, and the other child likes to swim. Family B has a 5-year old boy and a newborn. Which family is more likely to have a girl? Why?

Here have been my guesses so far, just pasted from my e-mails back to him:

Spoiler

I'll guess that it is Family A. My reasoning will be because if one likes to play football, it would have been possible or likely that the other would like to play football as well. Instead, the other individual does an activity that is far different than the other, in that the influence of one didn't seem to promote the influence of the other (plus we don't know how old that second child is, which could be older than that boy).

I don't truly truly believe that, but that is the fairest reasoning I could come up with. That doesn't necessarily mean girls like to swim more than guys or anything like that, but whatever haha.

He said that was wrong. Then I looked more at the age factor and made my second attempt:

Spoiler

Well then my next best guess is that because Family A's children has a chance of being twins, and you are more likely to have identical twins than fraternal twins, that it means there is that small increased likelihood that both of them are boys instead of one boy and one girl... so Family B is more likely to have a girl haha.

Also said was incorrect, that I was overthinking it, but that it did have to do with the ages. So my final crack so far is this:

Spoiler

Since Family A has "established" children (so much so that they already have interests which require a little more physical exertion than a toddler's walk), it is safe to assume that they are at least somewhat older... even if seven years old or so, if not older than that.

Anyway, maybe there is something that statistically shows (I have no idea) a family is more likely willing to have another child if they would like the other gender, and said family is willing to settle if they have one child of each gender.

As Family B just had their newborn and the probability is about 50/50 of being a girl, it's more likely that Family A has a girl because it has been quite some years before they have birthed another child, perhaps because they are settled on the outcome of their own... a boy and a girl.

... to which he also said is not only incorrect, but I am still way overthinking it. I mean, clearly I am. I'm aware of that fact. That's because I can't think of any simple answers to this.

Maybe it's one of those kinds of problems that doesn't require a math mind, but one of those "Five-year-old's answered this with a higher success rates than adults." I mean I don't actually think there is any sort of probability involved (not that anything I did was real-real probability to begin with, but still).

Can anyone else take a crack at this, tell me what I'm missing or go for your own answer here?

Didn't read the spoilers but even though it's a "trick" question I would assume if there was a correct answer it would be family B since the new born is too young to give clues as to his/her interest.

There is no fair logic to assume either male or female with family A and with family B both children are too young to assume anything so if I had to pick one of the two it would be family B.

[dickey1331]

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[dickey1331]

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I’d go with option B.

B waited 5 years to have a second child. If they wanted a girl they probably wouldn’t have waited so long but since life isn’t fair they got a girl.

Option A wanted a girl and had kids closer together and since life isn’t fair had a boy and they said **** it. It’s not worth having a 3rd.

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[Blzer]

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Didn't read the spoilers but even though it's a "trick" question I would assume if there was a correct answer it would be family B since the new born is too young to give clues as to his/her interest.

There is no fair logic to assume either male or female with family A and with family B both children are too young to assume anything so if I had to pick one of the two it would be family B.

Right? I don't know how there really is a way to say what the better chance is of having a girl regardless, unless these clues mean something. Or, unless they mean to look the opposite way, kind of like you said. In making no assumptions, that allows us to presume even more as a result.

I’d go with option B.

B waited 5 years to have a second child. If they wanted a girl they probably wouldn’t have waited so long but since life isn’t fair they got a girl.

Option A wanted a girl and had kids closer together and since life isn’t fair had a boy and they said **** it. It’s not worth having a 3rd.

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Hmm, interesting. I said the exact opposite reason in one of my other statements (that A settled once they had both). I get your logic though equally as much.

I believe according to my student though, that still may be "overthinking it." I can't wait to hear what his answer to this is, but I don't want to cave in yet and ask him to tell me it.