SOLUTION: A bag contains 2 gold marbles, 10 silver marbles, and 30 black marbles. Someone offers to play this game: You randomly select one marble from the bag. If it is gold, you win $3. If

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Question 1148222: A bag contains 2 gold marbles, 10 silver marbles, and 30 black marbles. Someone offers to play this game: You randomly select one marble from the bag. If it is gold, you win $3. If it is silver, you win $2. If it is black, you lose $1.
What is your expected value if you play this game?

Answer by ikleyn(52824)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Note that the total number of marbles in the box is  2+10+30 = 42 originally.


The Math expectation of the win value is


     =  =  =   of a dollar.     ANSWER


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