CAS Exam MAS-I Fall 2018, Question 10
Study guide: Exam MAS-I
You are given the following information about when a fair coin is flipped:
- If the outcome is Heads, 1 chip is won
- If the outcome is Tails, 1 chip is lost
- A gambler starts with 20 chips and will stop playing when he either has lost all his chips or he reaches 50 chips
- Of the first 10 flips, 7 are Heads and 3 are Tails
Calculate the probability that the gambler will lose all of his chips, given the results of the first 10 flips.
- A) Less than 0.5
- B) At least 0.5, but less than 0.6
- C) At least 0.6, but less than 0.7
- D) At least 0.7, but less than 0.8
- E) At least 0.8
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