Consider the odds and evens game introduced in Sec. 15.1 (Week 7, second video) and whose payoff table is shown as below. Strategy Player 1 (even player) 1 (finger) 2 (fingers) 1 (finger) Player 2 (odd player) 2 (fingers) 3 -4 −4 3 (a) Show that this game does not have a saddle point. (b) Write an expression for the expected payoff for player 1 (the evens player) in terms of the probabilities of the two players using their respective pure strategies. (c) Show what this expression in part (b) reduces to for the following three cases: (i) Player 2 definitely uses his first strategy, (ii) player 2 definitely uses his second strategy, (iii) player 2 assigns equal probabilities to using his two strategies. (Your answer should be like the bottom table on sec 15.3's notes Page 7: each reduced expression only has x₁.)

Consider the odds and evens game introduced in Sec. 15.1 (Week 7, second video) and whose payoff table is shown as below. Strategy Player 1 (even player) 1 (finger) 2 (fingers) 1 (finger) Player 2 (odd player) 2 (fingers) 3 -4 −4 3 (a) Show that this game does not have a saddle point. (b) Write an expression for the expected payoff for player 1 (the evens player) in terms of the probabilities of the two players using their respective pure strategies. (c) Show what this expression in part (b) reduces to for the following three cases: (i) Player 2 definitely uses his first strategy, (ii) player 2 definitely uses his second strategy, (iii) player 2 assigns equal probabilities to using his two strategies. (Your answer should be like the bottom table on sec 15.3's notes Page 7: each reduced expression only has x₁.)

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