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Re: [Phys-l] "Ask Marilyn"

Consider playing the game 3000 times precisely as laid out in the problem statement. How many times would you expect to win the car if you stuck with your initial choice? How many times would you expect to win if you switched?

John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona

On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:09 PM, William Robertson wrote:

I'm not seeing the advantage of switching choices, because
once you have new information, a new choice is made, which seems to me
to be 50-50.