{"id":968,"date":"2005-07-06T09:14:51","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=968"},"modified":"2005-07-06T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T16:14:51","slug":"a-trivia-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/07\/06\/a-trivia-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trivia Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been playing trivia at a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citysearch.com\/profile\/38049363\/seattle_wa\/norm_s_eatery_ale_house.html\">pub<\/a> (which I highly recommend.)  One of the categories they often use is a &#8220;decade&#8221; category.  The answer to all of the clues are years in a particular decade (say, for example, the 80s.)  Each year is used exactly one time and there are ten clues.  Suppose you randomly fill in the years as answers to the ten clues, respecting the condition that every year must be used exactly once.  What is the expected number of clues you will get correct?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been playing trivia at a local pub (which I highly recommend.) One of the categories they often use is a &#8220;decade&#8221; category. The answer to all of the clues are years in a particular decade (say, for example, the 80s.) Each year is used exactly one time and there are ten clues. Suppose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/07\/06\/a-trivia-puzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Trivia Puzzle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}