Conditional probability
problem
Do you brush your teeth every day?
How can we find out answers to questions like this if people often lie?
problem
Drug testing
How do different drug-testing regimes affect the risks and payoffs for an athlete who chooses to take drugs?
problem
Squash
If the score is 8-8 do I have more chance of winning if the winner
is the first to reach 9 points or the first to reach 10 points?
problem
Snooker
A player has probability 0.4 of winning a single game. What is his
probability of winning a 'best of 15 games' tournament?
problem
Coin tossing games
You and I play a game involving successive throws of a fair coin.
Suppose I pick HH and you pick TH. The coin is thrown repeatedly
until we see either two heads in a row (I win) or a tail followed
by a head (you win). What is the probability that you win?
problem
Fixing the odds
You have two bags, four red balls and four white balls. You must
put all the balls in the bags although you are allowed to have one
bag empty. How should you distribute the balls between the two bags
so as to make the probability of choosing a red ball as small as
possible and what will the probability be in that case?
problem
Penta colour
In how many different ways can I colour the five edges of a pentagon so that no two adjacent edges are the same colour?
problem
Master minding
Your partner chooses two beads and places them side by side behind a screen. What is the minimum number of guesses you would need to be sure of guessing the two beads and their positions?