For The Rest of Your Life
For The Rest of Your Life
'For the Rest of your life' is a new TV game show. Contestants play to win money every month for a specified amount of time. This article analyses the possible strategies that could be used and identifies the strategy that optimises the probability of winning the most money.
probability
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Fletcher, Mike
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Fletcher, Mike
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Fletcher, Mike
(2008)
For The Rest of Your Life.
Mathematics in School, 38, .
(In Press)
Abstract
'For the Rest of your life' is a new TV game show. Contestants play to win money every month for a specified amount of time. This article analyses the possible strategies that could be used and identifies the strategy that optimises the probability of winning the most money.
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Submitted date: 2008
Accepted/In Press date: 2008
Keywords:
probability
expectation
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Local EPrints ID: 63083
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/63083
ISSN: 0305-7259
PURE UUID: 3e15bfd2-1bcd-4aed-8ea0-092845dc38ce
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Date deposited: 19 Sep 2008
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 18:10
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Mike Fletcher
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