…I’m going to calculate the probability that one of my readers from Berkeley has also finished their finals.
Problem statement: Consider final time slots. of the time slots have passed. What is the probability that a student in Berkeley has finished all his/her finals given that he/she has finals?
Assumptions: There are about an equivalent amount of people taking finals in each time slot. There is no systematic “bias” in what final time slot one any student has.
Disclaimer: I’m actually really bad at probability, so correct me for errors in this computation.
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