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For The Rest of Your Life

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 expectation
0305-7259
30-31
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, 30-31. (In Press)

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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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Author: Mike Fletcher

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