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Consider the gambler’s ruin problem, with the exception that A and B agree to play no more...

Consider the gambler’s ruin problem, with the exception that A and B agree to play no more than n games. Let Pn,idenote the probability that A winds up with all the money when A starts with i and B starts with N − i. Derive an equation for Pn,i in terms of Pn−1, i+1 and Pn−1, i−1, and compute P7,3, N = 5.

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