Maths question - Moonwalkers

Maths question - Moonwalkers

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budfox

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Monday 5th May 2014
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Twelve men walked on the moon. None were born in February, April, May, or December.

What are the odds that from a randomly selected group of twelve people, there are four months which none of them were born in?

budfox

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Tuesday 6th May 2014
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Yes, I knew about the birthday thing, just wondered what the odds were of the above.

budfox

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Wednesday 14th May 2014
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Glad I started an interesting discussion. I'm no mathematician but I do love to read about the US space programme and Apollo in particular.

Just hope that at 50 years old I live to see a man walk on Mars. I rate my chances as 50/50, the same as the chance that Mike Collins reckon Apollo 11 had of making a successful moon landing.