Sunday, November 12, 2017

dice - Game probability

I hope you could help me with this problem...



The game goes this way:




There are 6 players, numbered 1 to 6.



Player 1 starts the game, he rolls a die with six faces. If the result (x) of rolling the die is 1 then Player 1 wins. Else the player number x starts his turn. The game goes on and the Player x rolls the die, if the result (y) is equal to x then Player x win, else it's the turn of Player y. And so on.



I thin the probability of the Player 1 to win is 27. But the question is: If player one has won, wich is the expected number of times he thrown the dice?



I try to do this:
pn = probability that player 1 wins on the n round.
p1=1/6

p2=0
p3=56×16×16



If I have a general formula for pn I would sum n×pn for all value of n and I have the expected number of rounds. But I can't find this pn.



Thank you so much!!!

No comments:

Post a Comment

analysis - Injection, making bijection

I have injection f:AB and I want to get bijection. Can I just resting codomain to f(A)? I know that every function i...