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FactChecker reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining with
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If you lay the 100 cards out in a row, there is a statistical symmetry going first to last or last to first. -
FactChecker replied to the thread Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining.Of course! I think that does it.
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FactChecker reacted to Dale's post in the thread Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining with Like.
I am not sure either. But probably it would be something like there are as many permutations of the deck with 3 greens at the beginning...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining.That's what I initially thought and, IMO, your simulation proves that is the final answer. I guess is that, if there are more of one...
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FactChecker reacted to Dale's post in the thread Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining with
Informative.
I did a Monte Carlo simulation of 100000 shuffles with drawing from the front and got a mean value of 1.514 and a simulation of 100000... -
FactChecker replied to the thread Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining.That was my first thought, and it still might be valid. But an abundance of one color certainly changes the odds of the last card...
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FactChecker reacted to Dale's post in the thread Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining with
Skeptical.
That would be the same as drawing N cards without replacement that match the first color.