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Old 01-31-2007, 04:00 PM
PairTheBoard PairTheBoard is offline
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Default Re: russian roulette

Going First:

(1/6) + (5/6)(4/5)(1/4) + (5/6)(4/5)(3/4)(2/3)(1/2) =

= .5

Notice the denominators other than 6 cancel out all the numerators.

With that answer there must be a way of looking at it where the answer pops out as obvious. Don't know what it would be though.

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