MACM 101 Lecture 7: Lecture 7

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Monty hall offers you a choice of 3 doors. One contains a prize, but the other two contain nothing. After choosing your door, monty reveals a door which does not contain the prize and then offers to let you switch doors. Solution: the probability you selected the correct door initially is 1/3 so p(wrong door) = 2/3. Case a (1 in 3): the prize is behind door #1. in this case, you do best to keep the door. Case b (2 in 3): the prize is not behind door #1. the best strategy is to switch doors. Definition: a proposition is a statement that is either true or false, but not both. The truth value is one of true or false, which is denoted by 1 or 0 in grimaldi and perhaps t or f in other texts. Give examples of statements which are not propositions. Come here! x + y = 15 [predicate]

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