SOLUTION: If a player rolls two dice and gets a sum of 11, he wins $ 20. if he gets a sum of 7 he wins $ 5. The cost to play the game is $ 3. Find the expectation of the game ? I built a

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Question 1176904: If a player rolls two dice and gets a sum of 11, he wins $ 20. if he gets a sum of 7 he wins $ 5. The cost to play the game is $ 3. Find the expectation of the game ?
I built a probability distribution based on gain and calculated the mean. I get an answer of $-0.39, but the key shows a different answer. Can you show me what I am doing incorrectly?

Answer by ikleyn(52866)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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When rolling two dice, in all, 36 equally likely outcomes are possible.


Of them, there are 2 outcomes that produce the sum of 11 :  (5,6) and (6,5).


Also, there are 6 outcomes that produce the sum of 7: (1,6), (2,5), (3,4), (4,3), (5,2) and (6,1).


So, you can win $20 with the probability    and

    you can win  $5 with the probability  .


So, your winning expectation is   =  =  = 1.94  dollars.


From it, you should subtract the cost of the play of $3,  so the expectation of the game is  $1.94 - $3.00 = - $1.06.


In other words, you will lose 1.06 dollars statistically at each game, in average.

Solved.

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