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Discrete & Continuous Random Variables - Statistics

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Chevalier de Mére and Blaise PascalAround 1650 the Chevalier de Mére posed a famous problem to Blaise Pascal.How should a gambling pot be fairly divided for an interrupted dice game.Players A and B each select a different number from D = {1,2,3,4,5,6}.For each roll of a fair die the player with his chosen number facing up gets a token.The player who first accumulates 5 tokens wins the pot of 100$.The game got interrupted with A having four tokens and B just having one.How should the pot be divided?12

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