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Hello all,
I was thinking about how a certain probability would be calculated and the answer is eluding me. It has been a number of years since I have taken a statistics and probabilities class so I am a little rusty.
Anyway, to jump right into my question: How would one figure out the probability of rolling 3 dice and getting a 3 6's. The twist is, dice rolled on a 6 remain the 6 for the next round.
So for example, if I roll 3 dice and get a 1/3/6 my next roll would be the first two dice as I already got a 6 and that is removed/remember by the game.
Also, how would one go about figuring out how many turns of the game one would expect before they attained 3 6's.
I know that for rolling 3 sixes at once, I could call the first roll X and the second roll x(1-x) such that on the nth round I would have x(1-x)(n-1)
Knowing that I came up with [tex]E[/tex]ix(1-x)(i-1) when i=1 to +[tex]\infty[/tex]
Then solve the limit to get the expectation of rounds =x(1/x2)
This won't work however for a game where a roll of 6 is removed, just the expectation of rolling all 6's. I am confused on how to start to setup the equation for this new game.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I was thinking about how a certain probability would be calculated and the answer is eluding me. It has been a number of years since I have taken a statistics and probabilities class so I am a little rusty.
Anyway, to jump right into my question: How would one figure out the probability of rolling 3 dice and getting a 3 6's. The twist is, dice rolled on a 6 remain the 6 for the next round.
So for example, if I roll 3 dice and get a 1/3/6 my next roll would be the first two dice as I already got a 6 and that is removed/remember by the game.
Also, how would one go about figuring out how many turns of the game one would expect before they attained 3 6's.
I know that for rolling 3 sixes at once, I could call the first roll X and the second roll x(1-x) such that on the nth round I would have x(1-x)(n-1)
Knowing that I came up with [tex]E[/tex]ix(1-x)(i-1) when i=1 to +[tex]\infty[/tex]
Then solve the limit to get the expectation of rounds =x(1/x2)
This won't work however for a game where a roll of 6 is removed, just the expectation of rolling all 6's. I am confused on how to start to setup the equation for this new game.
Any help would be much appreciated.