Urn R contains n red balls and urn B contains n blue balls. At each stage a ball is selected at random from each urn and they are swapped. Show that the expected number of red balls in urn R after stage k is:
Urn R contains n red balls and urn B contains n blue balls. At each stage...
Question 3. (exercise 3.11-13 in textbook) An urn contains r red balls and b blue balls. A ball is chosen at random from the urn, its color is noted, and it is returned together with d more balls of the same color. This is repeated indefinitely. What is the probability that (a) The second ball drawn is blue? (b) The first ball drawn is blue given that the second ball drawn is blue? (c) Let Bn denote the event that...
Question 3. (exercise 3.11-13 in textbook) An urn contains r red balls and b blue balls. A ball is chosen at random from the urn, its color is noted, and it is returned together with d more balls of the same color. This is repeated indefinitely. What is the probability that (a) The second ball drawn is blue? (b) The first ball drawn is blue given that the second ball drawn is blue? (c) Let Bn denote the event that...
Exercise 12.2 In Example 12.1b, find the optimal strategy and the op- timal value when the urn contains three red and four blue balls S. Example 12.1b An urn initially has n red and m blue balls. At each stage the player may randomly choose a ball from the urn; if the ball is red, then 1 is earned, and if it is blue, then 1 is lost. The chosen ball is discarded. At any time the player can decide...
Urn A contains two red balls and eight blue balls. Urn B contains two red balls and ten green balls. Six balls are drawn from urn A and four are drawn from urn B; in each case, each ball is replaced before the next one is drawn. What is the most likely number of blue balls to be drawn? What is the most likely number of green balls to be drawn?
An urn initially contains r red balls and s black balls. A ball is selected at random but not removed and a balls of the same color as the selection are added to the urn. The process is then repeated with a balls of one color or the other added to the urn at each epoch. With each addition the population of the urn increases by a and it is helpful to imagine that the (a) What is the probability...
Urn 1 contains 3 red and 6 blue balls, and urn 2 contains 4 red and 3 blue balls. The urns are equally likely to be chosen. a) If a blue ball is drawn, what is the probability that it came from urn 1? b) If a red ball is drawn, what is the probability that it came from urn 2?
(b) At time n = 0, an urn contains 2m balls, of which m are red and m are blue. At each time n = 1, ..., 2m, a single ball is randomly selected and taken away with no replacement. Hence, at time n, the urn has 2m – n balls. Let Rn denotes the number of red balls remaining in the urn at time n. For n= 0,..., 2m – 1, let B Rn Pn = 2m - in...
Urn One has 11 red balls and 8 blue balls. Urn Two has 10 red balls and 5 blue balls. An urn is selected at random and then a ball is selected from the selected urn at random. What is the probability that the ball selected is blue? State your answer to three places of decimal. Your Answer:
In an urn, there are 3 blue balls and 2 red balls. A ball is selected at random without replacement. Regardless of what color the first ball was, a blue ball is added to the urn (so there are a total of 5 balls in the urn now). Then a second ball is selected from the urn. a) What is the chance that the second ball selected from the urn is blue? b) Given that the second ball is blue,...
In an urn, there are 3 blue balls and 2 red balls. A ball is selected at random without replacement. Regardless of what color the first ball was, a blue ball is added to the urn (so there are a total of 5 balls in the urn now). Then a second ball is selected from the urn. a) What is the chance that the second ball selected from the urn is blue? b) Given that the second ball is blue,...