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9 years of K-8

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Think I missed the last one D: but it seems to me that P(M_6 | E + "unfair") we're asserting that the probabilities of each state are not evenly distributed, so we can only say that the probability of any state is equal to 1 minus the sum of probabilities of all the other states. I can't think of a way to go any further than that. Am I missing something?

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Literal shower thought: although previous statement is basically tautological, it led me to think:

All I presently know is that Pr(M_i | E + "unfair") is between 0 and 1. I've no further information on any of the states. Even though we've asserted that Pr(M_i ...) != Pr(M_j), at least not for all i and j, it seems to me each of the states are still functionally equivalent.

So can I still conclude the answer is 1/n? Am I allowed to do that?

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Is it just me or does that nun look a lot like Briggs?

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She does look like my high school nemesis, Sister Dorothy. "Why aren't you working, Matthew."

So maybe that's why I picked her.

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