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Is it just me or did they miscalculate the odds here by trying to tell a story? It seems the only things that matter are: # of cows slaughtered annually: 66
by bretpiatt 17y ago
Is it just me or did they miscalculate the odds here by trying to tell a story? It seems the only things that matter are:
# of cows slaughtered annually: 66.2M / 1.99 = 33,266,331.7
# of footballs made per cow: 20
# of footballs used in the Super Bowl: 76
# of cows required to make the SB balls: 76 / 20 = 3.8
Odds a randomly slaughtered cow becomes a SB football = 33,266,331.7 / 3.8 = 1 in 8,754,297.82
What am I missing?
- alexgartrell 17y agoThey're talking about the probability of any cow being a super bowl football. Not of any slaughtered cow. The fact that half of call cows get slaughtered is pretty irrelevant.