
055 = Bristol Bus Buds and Generic Soap Suds
A Problem Squared
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The Probability of Seeing a Person in London
Is it either Greater London, which is 8.9 million people, or the London metro area, which is 14.4 million people? Well, I guess I would go metro because if you're getting the coach from Bristol to London, then if you are travelling on further, it needs to be somewhere that you can reach the slightly more central of those two areas. So we're going to go to London population 8.98 to million people as of 2019. And so now you just work out the probability, which is a pretty straightforward calculation. Now I assumed, were you going to London, you're going there to see a person. But what about a gig? It's lots of
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