A fairground manager wishes to design a game where her customers win 10p each time they choose a cup with 10p under it. Under all but one of the cups there is 10p. The customer pays £1 and has n attempts at winning 10p. After each guess the game is reset. She wants the mean number of successes to be 9 and the standard deviation to be at most 2. What is the least number of cups, c, she can use and how many attempts should each customer be allowed?

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A fairground manager wishes to design a game where her customers win 10p each time they choose a cup with 10p under it. Under all but one of the cups there is 10p. The customer pays £1 and has n attempts at winning 10p. After each guess the game is reset. She wants the mean number of successes to be 9 and the standard deviation to be at most 2. What is the least number of cups, c, she can use and how many attempts should each customer be allowed?

 

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