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P11: Feeling Lucky? (Probability and Intuition)

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How Many Bullets in a Gun?

We're going to a play a russian roulette using this programme that i also wrote. We'll do two players with five bullets in a gun. The trick is to convince somebody to go first. If you go first, you're 25 % more likely to die than player one. And the reason why it's higher is because a plyor one has the probability of the first bullet plus the third bullet plus the fifth bullet. They're all less numbers, so the some of em is going to be less,. Yes?

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