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Old January 11th, 2009, 10:20 PM
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A bag contains ten $1 bills, five $2 bills, four $5 bills, one $10 bill, one $20 bill, and one $100 bill. In order to play the game, which consists of drawing on bill randomly out of the bag, you must pay $20.



Q: A construct a probability distribution for this situation.
A: ????


Q: Find the expected value
A: I think, (1x10)+(2x5)+(5x4)+(10x1)+(20x1)+(100x1) = $7.27


Q:Is this game fair? if it is not fair, determine how much someone should have to pay in order for the game to be fair.
A: Well it should cost $7.27 for the game to be considered fair.



I dont know what to do on the first one, nor if i have done the 2nd one right, which therefore would make me do the last one wrong.
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