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Re: physics/pedagogy of coffee-mixing



This is reminiscent of a car-talk puzzler of some time ago:

Two decks of cards, each of 52 cards, are mixed into one 104 card pile,
and then split into two 52 card piles - A and B. What are the chances
that the number of red cards in pile A equals the number of black cards in
pile B?

Bonus Question:
How many cards do you have to look at to be sure of your answer?

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor