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« on: June 26, 2013, 22:07:39 » |
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1. As I walked along Milton road in Cambridge, I saw a queue of twenty cars. How many of them had just the driver in them?
2. Twenty cyclists went past me. How many of them were wearing cycling helmets?
3. I was training twenty delegates near the Science Park stop on the guided busway. How many of them had used the guided bus to get in to the course that morning?
Twenty is a reasonable size sample from which to get a very rough idea (very rough indeed) of patterns.
If I add up the numbers that are the answer to (1), (2) and (3), I get twenty! Can you guess what the individual answers / counts were to each of the three micro counts I did?
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2013, 22:10:28 » |
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17 cars had one person
3 cyclists wearing a helmet
0 used the guided busway
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JayMac
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« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2013, 22:11:19 » |
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19-1-0
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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Red Squirrel
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« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2013, 22:14:22 » |
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I'll go 12-6-2 (sounds like Whyte notation for a class of engine designed to carry a heavy ash load in the smokebox)
Edit: Read questions before answering them, young Squirrel.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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grahame
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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2013, 22:20:39 » |
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Network South East just needs to lower one value by 1 and raise another by 1 to be correct
Bignosemac has shown himself to be a cynic
Red Squirrel has far too much faith in the people of Cambridge. This isn't a green city like Bristol, remember
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2013, 22:36:57 » |
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18-2-0
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JayMac
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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2013, 22:38:46 » |
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Bignosemac has shown himself to be a cynic
At least you didn't say 'professional'. I'm merely a not so gifted amateur. Let's try 16-3-1. |
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« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2013, 22:47:19 » |
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Bignosemac has shown himself to be a cynic
At least you didn't say 'professional'. I'm merely a not so gifted amateur. Let's try 16-3-1. Good try, Southern Stag, but Bignosemac now has it spot on 16 out of 20 cars had just one person in them 3 out of 20 cyclists were wearing helmets (though watching later, I think that was a low number in my sample) 1 used the guided busway. The others? 12 delegates drove, 3 walked, and 4 cycled. |
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« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2013, 22:49:54 » |
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Good try, Southern Stag, but Bignosemac now has it spot on
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2013, 22:22:49 » |
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Where you the person who used the guided busway?!! |
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grahame
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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2013, 22:31:38 » |
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Where you the person who used the guided busway?!! I arrived in Cambridge on the X5 coach from Oxford, I walked while there (including that morning of the survey) and I took a guided bus from the Science Park to the station at the start of my journey to Dublin. That's now 1 taxi, 1 ferry, 2 buses, 3 trains and 4 trams ago ... so it seems quite a while back! |
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grahame
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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2013, 22:40:43 » |
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P.S. Greetings from Dublin ...  |
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2013, 22:15:05 » |
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Cough, splutter, Elfin Safety, RAIB▸ having apoplexy, etc. ...   |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2013, 22:32:24 » |
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Ah ... not familiar with trams, then?
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