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Coin Toss Game
Calc
Medium
~15 min
· Probability
Problem
The Problem
A fair coin is tossed
n
times. Let
X
be the number of heads.
What is
P
(
X
=
k
)
for
0
≤
k
≤
n
?
What is
E
[
X
]
and
Var
(
X
)
?
Game variant:
You win
\
2^k
i
f
y
o
ug
e
t
e
x
a
c
tl
y
k$ heads. What is the fair price of this game (the expected payoff)? Is it finite?
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