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Old 11-28-2007, 08:30 PM
pzhon pzhon is offline
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Default Re: An original math problem

Oops, good catch. So a few of my answers were off by a factor of 2.

<font color="white">So if you include the end, the expected number of times the deck is even is 4^n/(2nCn). Your expected value is 4^n/(2nCn) - 1.
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It was a good observation that this was connected to the previous problem.

The value is also very similar to the value of the multiplicative version.
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