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day_05/04_monte_carlo_bday_assignment.ipynb

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+        "##Project P5\n",
+        "\n",
+        "**There is a famous problem in statistics that concerns a room full of people: Same Birthday!**\n",
+        "\n",
+        "An instructor offers a prize of $20.00 to anyone who thinks that two people in the room have the same birthday.\n",
+        "\n",
+        "Your assignment is to build a Monte Carlo simulation to tell the instructor how many people need to be in the room to give him/her a better than 50% chance of winning the $20.\n",
+        "\n",
+        "That is to say how many people need to be in a room in order for the probability of two of them having the same birthday is greater than 50%. Do the same for 95% and 99%."
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+      "source": [
+        "import numpy as np"
+      ],
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+      "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "Og5IlcBIH-J0"
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+      "source": [
+        "# Create funtion to run simulations"
+      ],
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "metadata": {
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+      "source": [
+        "# Run simulations"
+      ],
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+      "outputs": []
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+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "metadata": {
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+      "source": [
+        "# Communicate results"
+      ],
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "outputs": []
+    }
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