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How would you get the distribution from the sum of numbers individually?

• jessaustin 6y ago
  You don't count the slips of paper in the hat. Instead you count the number of people who put in slips of paper.
  • nitrogen 6y ago
    That will give an average, but it won't give the distribution (min/max/etc)
• chrisdirkis 6y ago
  I believe the parent meant breaking it down as "if you earn $100k, add 10 slips that each have $10k on them". The number of slips will be more than the number of people in the room, but that's fine. It's less practical than the "seed + pass round" method that someone else recommended imo (due to handwriting notability), but still works in a more technical sense.
• jhanschoo 6y ago
  You're right, you can't, I was looking at the problem posed by grandparent comment of getting only the average.