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Proofreading MistakesIf proofreader finds mistakes and proofreader finds mistakes, of which were also found by , how manymistakes were missed by both and ? Assume there are a total of mistakes, so proofreader finds a Fraction of all mistakes, and also a Fraction of the mistakes found by . Assuming these fractions are the same,then solving for gives
The number of mistakes missed by both is therefore approximately
References
Pólya, G. ``Probabilities in Proofreading.'' Amer. Math. Monthly, 83, 42, 1976.
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