Odds, probabilities and "what's the chances of that?"

[Louis Balfour]

A sheep farmer owns 100 fields.

He has owned the fields for 17 years.

In 17 years he has had three sheep die.

All sheep died in the same field.

What are the chances of that happening?

[Louis Balfour]

Bluesgirl said:

Probably fairly high if he had 99 empty fields.

Okay.

One sheep in each field. He immediately replaced the dead sheep.