Emma’s Dilemma: Working With Probability
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Emma is playing with arrangements of the letters of her name to see
how many combinations there are.
EMMA AEMM MMAE MAEM
EMAM AMEM MMEA MEMA
EAMM AMME MEAM MAME
I found that there are 12 combinations of the letters in the name
Emma. However, I think that the fact that there is a repeated letter
in the name has affected the result. I will try another name with no
repeated letter to see if it will affect the number of combinations. I
will use the name Lucy.
LUCY UCYL CYLU
YLUC
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LUYC UCLY CYUL
YLCU
LCUY ULCY CUYL
“If you choose not to decide, you have still made a choice.” --Blaise Pascal. This quote means when you give up the chance to make the decision, you 've already make the decision to stand aside indifferently, and trying to ignore the fact that you could 've done something better with that. This related to her most famous story is "The Lottery" (1948), the time period which is not long after the Great Depression and World War II. These two events changed the mentality of the whole society, people started the idea of "man for himself", in order to survive in the community. This works a straightforward manner to metaphor human cruelty and ignorance. Shirley Jackson (1919 -1965), an American novelist and short story writer. The theme of most
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Secondly, we arrange Lucy's name. 1 ) Lucy 12 ) Cyul 22 ) Yulc 2 ) Luyc 13 ) Culy 23 ) Ycul 4 ) Lycu 14 ) Culy 24 )