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« on: June 26, 2013, 22:07:39 »
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 »
17 cars had one person
3 cyclists wearing a helmet
0 used the guided busway
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« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2013, 22:11:19 »
19-1-0
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« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2013, 22:14:22 »
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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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2013, 22:20:39 »
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 »
18-2-0
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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2013, 22:38:46 »
Quote from: grahame on June 26, 2013, 22:20:39
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 »
Quote from: bignosemac on June 26, 2013, 22:38:46
Quote from: grahame on June 26, 2013, 22:20:39
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 »
Quote from: grahame on June 26, 2013, 22:47:19
Good try, Southern Stag, but Bignosemac now has it spot on

Woohoo!!!

Is there a prize?  Wink Tongue Grin
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« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2013, 23:28:57 »
Quote from: bignosemac on June 26, 2013, 22:49:54
Is there a prize?  Wink Tongue Grin

There's a prize on the quiz that's running at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=12483.0

... can I suggest to all members they take a look at that and have a go ...
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2013, 22:22:49 »
Where you the person who used the guided busway?!! Grin
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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?!! Grin

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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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2013, 22:40:43 »
P.S.   Greetings from Dublin ...
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« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2013, 22:15:05 »
Cough, splutter, Elfin Safety, RAIB▸ (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) having apoplexy, etc. ...  Shocked Roll Eyes Grin
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« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2013, 22:32:24 »
Ah ... not familiar with trams, then?
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