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comes up, the bettor gets her dollar back, and also gets another dollar. If a black or green | comes up, the bettor gets her dollar back, and also gets another dollar. If a black or green | ||
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<ul><li> Suppose that someone starts with 40 dollars, and continues to bet on red until either her | <ul style="list-style-type:lower-alpha"><li> Suppose that someone starts with 40 dollars, and continues to bet on red until either her | ||
fortune reaches 50 or 0. Find the probability that her fortune reaches 50 dollars. | fortune reaches 50 or 0. Find the probability that her fortune reaches 50 dollars. | ||
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In American casinos, the roulette wheels have the integers between 1 and
36, together with 0 and 00. Half of the non-zero numbers are red, the other half are black, and 0 and 00 are green. A common bet in this game is to bet a dollar on red. If a red number comes up, the bettor gets her dollar back, and also gets another dollar. If a black or green number comes up, she loses her dollar.
- Suppose that someone starts with 40 dollars, and continues to bet on red until either her fortune reaches 50 or 0. Find the probability that her fortune reaches 50 dollars.
- How much money would she have to start with, in order for her to have a 95\% chance of winning 10 dollars before going broke?
- A casino owner was once heard to remark that “If we took 0 and 00 off of the roulette wheel, we would still make lots of money, because people would continue to come in and play until they lost all of their money. Do you think that such a casino would stay in business?