Gambling at Monte Carlo
A man went to Monte Carlo to try and make his fortune. Is his strategy a winning one?
A man went to Monte Carlo to try and make his fortune. Is his strategy a winning one?
Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
Some relationships are transitive, such as 'if A>B and B>C then it follows that A>C', but some are not. In a voting system, if A beats B and B beats C should we expect A to beat C?
A player has probability 0.4 of winning a single game. What is his probability of winning a 'best of 15 games' tournament?
It is believed that weaker snooker players have a better chance of winning matches over eleven frames (i.e. first to win 6 frames) than they do over fifteen frames. Is this true?
Two brothers belong to a club with 10 members. Four are selected for a match. Find the probability that both brothers are selected.