The Infamous Monty Hall Problem The Setup you are presented with 3 doors (A, B, C) only one of which has something valuable to you behind it (the others are bogus) you do not know what is behind any of the doors You choose a door Monty then counters by showing you what is behind one of the other doors (which is a bogus prize), and asks you if you would like to stick with the door you have, or ...

Navigation Panel: Go backward to The Tower of Hanoi Go up to Mathematically Interesting Games Go down to first subsection The Mathematics Behind the Game Switch to text-only version (no graphics) Go to University of Toronto Mathematics Network Home Page The Car and the Goats You are a contestant on a television game show. Before you are three closed doors. One of them hides a car, which you want ...

Welcome to Monty Hall The so-called Monty Hall Problem is an ancient net.chestnut which, every time it appears on the net ignites mega-flame wars and consumes enormous bandwidth as folks wrangle (once again) over the problem and its solution. The following is an attempt to supply an introduction to the problem (in case you haven't seen it before) and provide a reasonable and clear explanation of ...

Information about, an analysis of, and simulation of the Monty Hall Problem.

The WWW Tackles The Monty Hall Problem Discourse on the Monty Hall Problem: The following sites all pose the problem and discuss the solution and the conflict the solution has with our intuition. Monty Hall, Let's Make a Deal, Problem http://www.nadn.navy.mil/MathDept/courses/sm230/montyhal.htm The Infamous Monty Hall Problem http://www.comedia.com/Hot/monty.html Monty Hall Problem http://129.

A new approach to the Monty Hall problem Reams and reams have been written about the Monty Hall problem, but no-one seems to have mentioned a simple fact which, once realised, makes the whole thing seem intuitive. The Monty Hall show is a (possibly fictional, I'm not sure) TV gameshow. One couple have beaten all the others to the final round with their incredible skill at answering questions on ...

Simulation for the Monty Hall Dilemma ...

From the Exploring Data website - http://curriculum.qed.qld.gov.au/kla/eda/ Education Queensland, 1997 Monty Hall Puzzle - Explanations of the Solution One interesting aspect of this puzzle is that no one explanation seems to satisfy everybody. If you want to convince an entire class of skeptical students, you will need all of the solutions below, at least. Explanation 1 - my favourite The ...