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Example 4.6 from Statistics, 4.2 Mean or Expected Value and Standard Deviation
c. What is the expected value, μ? Do you come out ahead?
Work it out on paper first. Then open the solution one step at a time, and stop as soon as you can finish on your own.
c. Add the last column of the table. The expected value . You lose, on average, about 67 cents each time you play the game, so you do not come out ahead.
How did it go?