Question 1138185: Joe is playing a game of chance at the hibiscus festival, costing $1 for each game. In the game two fair dice are rolled and the sum of the numbers that turned up is found. If the sum is seven, then Joe wins $5. Otherwise loses his money. Joe play the game 15 times. Find his expected profit or lose.
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Answer by greenestamps(13209)   (Show Source):
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The probability of rolling a 7 is 1/6; the profit is -$1 + $5 = $4.
The probability of rolling any other sum is 5/6; the proft is -$1.
The expected profit for one game is
If he plays the game 15 times, his expected profit is
ANSWER: his expected profit playing the game 15 times is -$2.50 -- i.e., a loss of $2.50.
Answer by ikleyn(52878)  (Show Source):
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When two fair dice are rolled, there are 36 possible outcomes, each with the probability of  .
These outcomes are the pairs of integer numbers (i,j), where i and j take independently the values from 1 to 6.
The number of such pairs with the sum i+j = 7 is 6
( the pairs are (1,6), (2,5), (3,4), (4,3), (5,2) and (6,1) ).
So, the probability to get the sum of 7 at each roll of a pair of dice is  =  .
Mathematical expectation of the amount of money to win at each roll of a pair of dice is  dollars,
but Joe should pay one dollar for each roll,
so his expected profit at each roll of a pair of dice is
 =  =  of a dollar.
Thus, statistically, Joe should expect the loss of a dollar in each roll of a pair of dice.
Making 15 rolls in the game, Joe should expect to lose  dollars =  dollars = $2.50. ANSWER
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