Thought you'd enjoy a chuckle. The principal at the Jr. High, Mr. Erickson, decided that since a lot of our math classes will be doing statistics and probabilities soon, he'd use the basketball tournament to help them learn about probability. So, he made the students an offer. The students would fill out the flow chart of the winners of the tournament, predicting who they thought would win the games. If one student got all 63 games correct, then for the rest of the year all of the students would get a one hour lunch break as well as open campus... they could leave and go to the store or go with a high-school friend to lunch. He supplied the charts for the kids for the standard copying cost of 10c, but they could copy their own or copy ours. Each kid could enter as many times as they wanted.
Yesterday morning (day one of the tournament) we had over 250 entries. After the first two games finished, there were 5 left. When the bell rang at the end of school, there was 1 left... a girl who knew nothing about basketball, according to her. She was out before the faculty left at the end of the day.
Evidently, the odds of getting all 63 games correct is 9.1 quintillion. His offer of a long lunch and open campus was a very safe bet! :)
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