You set up a camival booth game at a local fund-raising event. The game consists of rolling a giant six-sided die. The die is fair, so each individual roll has a probability of %. Game participants pay $3 per roll. A participant who rolls a 6 wins a prize that costs you $8. A participant who rolls a1 wins a prize that costs you $2.50. Participants who roll other numbers win nothing. Think about the expected earnings the booth owner will receive for each person who plays the game. Roll 6. 1 2,3,4, or 5 Earnings Probability a. What is the expected value or mean for each participant? b. An average of 35 participants play your game each hour, and the event lasts 8 hours. How much money do you expect to raise during the event? O. sa

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You set up a camival booth game at a local fund-raising event. The game consists of rolling a giant six-sided die. The die is fair, so
each individual roll has a probability of %. Game participants pay $3 per roll. A participant who rolls a 6 wins a prize that costs you
$8. A participant who rolls a 1 wins a prize that costs you $2.50. Participants who roll other numbers win nothing. Think about the
expected earnings the booth owner will receive for each person who plays the game.
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6.
2,3,4, or 5
Earnings
Probability
a. What is the expected value or mean for each participant?
b. An average of 35 participants play your game each hour, and the event lasts 8 hours. How much money do you expect to raise
during the event?
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Transcribed Image Text:QUESTION 2 12 You set up a camival booth game at a local fund-raising event. The game consists of rolling a giant six-sided die. The die is fair, so each individual roll has a probability of %. Game participants pay $3 per roll. A participant who rolls a 6 wins a prize that costs you $8. A participant who rolls a 1 wins a prize that costs you $2.50. Participants who roll other numbers win nothing. Think about the expected earnings the booth owner will receive for each person who plays the game. Roll 6. 2,3,4, or 5 Earnings Probability a. What is the expected value or mean for each participant? b. An average of 35 participants play your game each hour, and the event lasts 8 hours. How much money do you expect to raise during the event? 3 (12pt) vE - E T- 只i 公 T TTT Paragraph Arial O f Mashups- O 1 E E E EE E O HTML CSS Save All Answers Click Save and Submit to save and submit. Click Save All Answers to save all answers. W N a
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If a die is rolled then getting 2, 3, 4 and 5 are mutually exclusive events. So the probability of getting 2, 3, 4 or 5 can be computed by adding the probability of each individual event. The probability of each individual roll is 16.

P(2 or 3 or 4 or 5)=P(2)+P(3)+P(4)+P(5)=16+16+16+16=46

Now, the participant gives $3 and if participant roll 6, the winning price is worth of $8, so the earning will be 3-8=-5.  If participant roll 1 then winning price is worth of $2.50, so the earning will be 3-2.50=0.5. And rolling 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 will give nothing to the participant, so earning will be $3.

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