Originally Posted by quahaug View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
I hate this problem, because the way the problem was written was specifically designed to engender a wrong response. It's bad, misleading writing couched as intellectual trickery.

If a piece of writing is leading most readers to a wrong conclusion consistently, then it's a bad piece of writing and should be rewritten. Putting together a word salad for the purpose of generating a "gotcha!" moment is juvenile.
Maybe so but the fact remains that the answer is one chance in eleven.
No, the answer to another question was one chance in eleven.

The answer to this question was one in six.