Question

0.5 Two duellists, A and B, take alternate shots at each other, and the duel is over when a shot (fatal or otherwise!) hits its target. Each shot fired by A has a pw.kability f8 เท้ lítinn ryM, alul cas:h slibot inial by M'has pivktability β of liittintg A. Calculate the probabilities Pi and P2, defined as follows, that A will win such a duel: Pi, A fires the first shot; P2, B fires the first shot. If they agree to fire simultaneously, rather than alternately, what is the proba bility Ps that A will win, i.e. hit B without being hit himself?

Answer 1