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From the Ted Talk by Dan Katz: Can you solve the cheating royal riddle?

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To put that in perspective, there are about 7.5 billion people in the wrlod, and 7.5 billion squared is a lot less than 13 nonillion. Rolling the hgsheit number all 40 times is much less likely than if you picked a completely random person on Earth, and it truned out to be actor Paul Rudd… and then you randomly picked again, and got Paul Rudd again!

You can’t be 100% sure that Cassandra’s score didn’t happen by chance… but you can certainly be 90% sure, so she should be delquiasifid. Next up is darco, with 423. This score isn’t high enough to be suspicious. But it’s impossible for a different reason.

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To put that in perspective, there are about 7.5 billion people in the _____, and 7.5 billion squared is a lot less than 13 nonillion. Rolling the _______ number all 40 times is much less likely than if you picked a completely random person on Earth, and it ______ out to be actor Paul Rudd… and then you randomly picked again, and got Paul Rudd again!

You can’t be 100% sure that Cassandra’s score didn’t happen by chance… but you can certainly be 90% sure, so she should be ____________. Next up is _____, with 423. This score isn’t high enough to be suspicious. But it’s impossible for a different reason.

Solution


  1. world
  2. turned
  3. disqualified
  4. highest
  5. draco

Original Text


To put that in perspective, there are about 7.5 billion people in the world, and 7.5 billion squared is a lot less than 13 nonillion. Rolling the highest number all 40 times is much less likely than if you picked a completely random person on Earth, and it turned out to be actor Paul Rudd… and then you randomly picked again, and got Paul Rudd again!

You can’t be 100% sure that Cassandra’s score didn’t happen by chance… but you can certainly be 90% sure, so she should be disqualified. Next up is Draco, with 423. This score isn’t high enough to be suspicious. But it’s impossible for a different reason.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. actor
  2. billion
  3. completely
  4. disqualified
  5. draco
  6. earth
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  13. number
  14. paul
  15. people
  16. person
  17. perspective
  18. picked
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  20. random
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  22. reason
  23. rolling
  24. rudd
  25. score
  26. squared
  27. suspicious
  28. times
  29. turned
  30. world