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- From: tayloe@uinpla.npl.uiuc.edu (Rex Tayloe)
- Subject: Re: Desperate situation
- References: <1993Jan26.183234.20186@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Organization: Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:02:31 GMT
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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:
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- >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)?
- >
- >This assignment is due at 5 PM today. Our class started out with
- >a mix of theorists and experimentalists. Now all of the
- >experimentalists are dead, and the theorists are confused.
- >
- >We need help.
- >
- >(solution tomorrow)
- >
- >John Blanton
- >blanton@lobby.ti.com
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- Look up the "negative binomial distribution". The answer is 6.
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