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Your mathematics teacher displays a monthly calendar, which highlights all the birthdays of your classmates. Your mathematics class has 25 students What is the probability that 3 or more students were born in the same month?

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Final answer:

The problem is about determining the likelihood of 3 or more students in a class of 25 sharing the same birthday month, which requires combinatorics and probability theory to solve accurately.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question you've asked is a probability problem, specifically related to the probability of a certain event occurring within a given group size. Since the class has 25 students and there are 12 months in a year, you're essentially trying to find the probability that in a random distribution of birthdays across those months, 3 or more students share the same birthday month.

This type of problem can be approached using the Pigeonhole Principle, which states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at least one container must contain more than one item. In your case, the 'containers' are the months and the 'items' are the students' birthdays. Since 25 students are distributed across 12 months, by this principle, at least two students will definitely share a birthday month. However, finding the exact probability of 3 or more students sharing the same birthday month requires a more complex calculation, often involving combinatorics and probability theory. Without more specific data, a precise probability cannot be provided here.

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