@mh733w@Pearlwontmiss You have to assume something to answer this question. Assuming no net force on truck+water, and more of the water is moving backwards in C, the truck must be going faster to conserve momentum.
@Pearlwontmiss Assuming no net force on truck+liquid, with the liquid sloshing back and forth. Conservation of momentum states that the truck is moving at maximal speed when the most the liquid is moving backwards, which is A.
@cvvobh@PlusEVAnalytics What if he is hostile and only opens a letter if you chose right? Then switching makes your probability of winning zero. So if those are the two options and equally likely you have a (2/3 + 0) / 2 = 1/3 chance of winning if switching
@GLabsPlus@Math_files Isnt there a difference between ”pick randomly from the pool of people with at least one boy born on a Tuesday” and ”from a random person with two children, have them speak the gender and birthday of one of them”. In the former, you’d have 51.8%, the latter 50%?
@voc2023@tomhfh I have been going around on google street view in 2009/2010 and it is fascinating to how dated is starting to look, almost 80s like in some ways. And then you think the vast majority of people in that world did not own a smartphone. And that is only halfway from here to mid 90s
@Spen_Hays@TheMindScourge This is exactly the same in large parts of southern Sweden - it was lots more open fields in past and you can find lots of traces like the stone walls.
@dharh@micsolana So to speak to people in your community you need buy some device and subscription, lose all nuance and intonations? As an added bonus all your conversations sent through a data center.