Monty Hall for N doors: You are a contestant at a show with N closed doors where N > 3. One of the doors has a car and all the others have no prize. You first pick a door at random. Then, the host picks a door uniformly at random among the remaining doors that have no prize in them and opens that door for you. You then face the choice of sticking with your initial selection or switching to one of the remaining closed doors uniformly at random? How should you play? Justify your answer with rigorous probability calculations.

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Monty Hall for N doors: You are a contestant at a show with N closed doors where N > 3. One of the doors has a car and all the others have no prize. You first pick a door at random. Then, the host picks a door uniformly at random among the remaining doors that have no prize in them and opens that door for you. You then face the choice of sticking with your initial selection or switching to one of the remaining closed doors uniformly at random? How should you play? Justify your answer with rigorous probability calculations.

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