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Expected Value: all problems

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Problem 9.1.1

Mark is playing a game at the casino. The game costs $100\$100. There is a 5%5\% chance he will win $500\$500 and a 20%20\% chance he will win $250\$250 and 75%75\% chance he will win $0\$0. What is the expected value for the money he will lose?

Problem 9.1.2

AMC 10

A player pays $5\$5 to play a game. A die is rolled. If the number on the die is odd, the game is lost. If the number on the die is even, the die is rolled again. In this case the player wins if the second number matches the first and loses otherwise. How much should the player win if the game is fair? (In a fair game the probability of winning times the amount won is what the player should pay.)

Problem 9.1.3

AMC 12

Awnik repeatedly plays a game that has a probability of winning of 13\frac13. The outcomes of the games are independent. What is the expected value of the number of games he will play until he has both won and lost at least once?

Problem 9.1.4(additional)

AMC 12

A school has 100 students and 5 teachers. In the first period, each student is taking one class, and each teacher is teaching one class. The enrollments in the classes are 50, 20, 20, 5, and 5. Let tt be the average value obtained if a teacher is picked at random and the number of students in their class is noted. Let ss be the average value obtained if a student was picked at random and the number of students in their class, including the student, is noted. What is t−st - s?

Problem 9.1.5(additional)

AIME

Let S\mathcal{S} be the set of real numbers that can be represented as repeating decimals of the form 0.abc‾0.\overline{abc} where a,b,ca, b, c are distinct digits. Find the sum of the elements of S\mathcal{S}.

Problem 9.1.6(additional)

AIME

For each permutation a1,a2,a3,…,a10a_1, a_2, a_3, \dots, a_{10} of the integers 1,2,3,…,101, 2, 3, \dots, 10, form the sum

∣a1−a2∣+∣a3−a4∣+∣a5−a6∣+∣a7−a8∣+∣a9−a10∣.|a_1 - a_2| + |a_3 - a_4| + |a_5 - a_6| + |a_7 - a_8| + |a_9 - a_{10}|.

The average value of all such sums can be written in the form pq\frac{p}{q}, where pp and qq are relatively prime positive integers. Find p+qp + q.

Problem 9.1.7(additional)

NIMO

One day, a bishop and a knight were on squares in the same row of an infinite chessboard, when a huge meteor storm occurred, placing a meteor in each square on the chessboard independently and randomly with probability pp. Neither the bishop nor the knight were hit, but their movement may have been obstructed by the meteors. For what value of pp is the expected number of valid squares that the bishop can move to (in one move) equal to the expected number of squares that the knight can move to (in one move)?