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- From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: Desperate situation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.204532.667@hnrc.tufts.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:45:32 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.183234.20186@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.183234.20186@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, blanton@mksol.dseg.ti.com (John F Blanton) writes:
- > THIS IS A HOMEWORK PROBLEM
- >
- > The game of Russian roulette consists of the following steps:
- >
- > a. Load a 6-shot revolver with 1 bullet and 5 empty chambers.
- > b. Spin the cylinder.
- > c. Point the gun at your head and pull the trigger.
- >
- > On the average, how many times can one person play this game
- > (steps a, b, c)?
- >
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- An interesting (mathematically) variant is a,b,c,c,c, . . .
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