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Show the odds of any two individuals having the same birthday are slightly greater than 1:1 (1:.9732 actually). Assume there are 23 individuals in the room and 365 days in a year ignoring leap year.

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Neat and step-by-step approach and solution is presented to the birthday paradox.

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To calculate the probability of finding two people with the same birthday in the group of 23 people, we, instead, calculate

the probability that NO TWO people will share a birthday; that is, they will ...

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