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The solution given by the Car Talk boys has the right idea but they struggle a bit with the  mathematics.  This is a well known problem and occurs in most math puzzles books.  It is problem 20 in Mosteller's famous book  "Fifty Challenging Probability Problems".

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The solution given by the Car Talk boys has the right idea but they struggle a bit with the mathematics. This is a well known problem and occurs in most math puzzles books. It is problem 20 in Mosteller's famous book "Fifty Challenging Probability Problems".