You are on a game show with five doors to choose a prize from. One door has $10 behind it and the other four doors have nothing behind them. What is the mean, or expected value, of this probability distribution?

You are on a game show with five doors to choose a prize from. One door has $10 behind it and the other four doors have nothing behind them. What is the mean, or expected value, of this probability distribution?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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