Game show math

Ran across a contestant story that's a little out of the ordinary. What are the odds that five sisters, all math teachers, would show up on Family Feud?

Eight hundred years ago I was a math major myself, but I'm not even going to try to estimate the probabilities. The event actually did occur, though, when five math teacher sisters from the Gallert family faced the surveys at an August taping. Their shows air next week.

The story spoils the outcomes a little by blabbing that the sisters will appear on two episodes. You don't need to be a math whiz to figure out that they must have won one game and (probably, if the eps air in order) lost the second. Can't win 'em all. Sometimes the points just don't add up, even for math mavens.

The sisters offer the usual nice things that contestants say about Steve Harvey. With all he hosts you would think he'd be like this untouchable person, but he was so down to Earth and really cool. Opinions differ on Mr. Steve, as readers of game show comment boards know all too well.

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