Expected value (50 points)
game: roll two dice. win a prize based on the sum of the dice.
cost of playing the game: $1
prizes:
win $10 if your sum is odd.
win $5 if you roll a sum of 4 or 8.
win $50 if you roll a sum of 2 or 12.
answer both question. will give
explain how to find the expected value of playing this game. what is the expected value of playing this game? show your work. (30 points)
interpret the meaning of the expected value in the context of this game. why should someone play or not play this game. answer in complete sentences. (20 points)

Let be the random variable representing the winnings you get for playing the game. Then

First thing to do is determine the probability of each of the above events. You roll two dice, which offers 6 * 6 = 36 possible outcomes. You find the probability of the above events by dividing the number of ways those events can occur by 36.

The sum is odd if one die is even and the other is odd. This can happen 2 * 3 * 3 = 18 ways. (3 ways to roll even with the first die, 3 ways to roll odd for the die, then multiply by 2 to count odd/even rolls)The sum is 4 if you roll (1, 3), (2, 2), or (3, 1), and the sum is 8 if you roll (2, 6), (3, 5), (4, 4), (5, 3), or (6, 2). 8 ways.The sum is 2 if you roll (1, 1), and the sum is 12 if you roll (6, 6). 2 ways.There are 36 total possible rolls, from which you subtract the 18 that yield a sum that is odd and the other 10 listed above, leaving 8 ways to win nothing.

So the probability mass function for this game is

The expected value of playing the game is then

or about $7.89.

The expected value is positive, so a player can expect to earn money in the long run, and so should play the game.

8doors on the second floor

That’d be 9 years or something