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What's the (approximate) probability of two people sharing a birthday in a group of 10 people?
Important: Enter the first two decimals. Example, if the result is 0.0982, enter 0.98. If it's 0.1012, enter 0.10.
Same as before, with n = 15.
Now it's time to generalize the probability calculation and create the function birthday_probability that returns the probability of two people sharing a birthday when in a group of number_of_people.
Use the column Birth Date to extract the "Birthday" (just Month and Day) for each player in the format MM-DD. Example: 08-01 is August, 1st.
You can use the df['Birth Date'].dt.strftime method, which accepts a "formatting template" which you can use to decide the formatting of the date. Refer to the docs for more details.
It'll look something like:
This first activity will probably be the tougher one, as you have to find a way to answer how many players share a birthday for a given team. This first activity is related to the Atlanta Hawks. Hopefully, once you solve this one, you'll be able to answer the rest of the activities pretty easily.
Note: We're asking for "pairs" of players. Not total players that share birthdays. This would reduce confusion in case of 3 players having the same birthday (which would result in 2 pairs).
In the Dallas Mavericks there are just two players (one pair) that share a birthday. One is J.J. Barea, who's the other one? Enter the full name.
