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Article #635Any keen maths whiz out there
From: Craig Lawson
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:00
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This is what a grade 11 maths C student cops for an assignment. Solve this and your a LEGEND! A lecturer has three favourite questions, one of which occurs in every exam she sets. The students know her habits in exam setting well. She never uses the same question twice in a row. If she used question one last time, she tosses a coin, and uses question two if a head comes up. If she used question two, she tosses two coins and switches to question three if both come up heads. If she used question three, she tosses three coins and switches to question one if all three come up heads. In the long run, find which question she uses most often and how frequently it is used.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6df2,24b79120b11ffc9d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf6df2,public From: "Craig Lawson" <lawso@ozemail.com.au> Subject: Any keen maths whiz out there Date: 1996/10/25 Message-ID: <01bbc251$3f551260$3abc07cb@lawso.ozemail.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 191929081 organization: LAWSON'S WORKSHOP newsgroups: bln.sci.mathematik