Your friend has a coin-flipping game that hewants you to play. It cost you $2 eachtime. You flip two fair coins. If both coins aretails, then you get nothing back. If one ishead and one is tail, you get $1 back. If bothcoins are heads, then you get $5 back. Whatis the expected value of the game? Explainwhat this value means.The Declaration of Independence isapproximately 7,000 letters long. If you wereto pick 7,000 letters at random, what is theprobability that your letters spell out the entireDeclaration of Independence? What does theInfinite Monkey Theorem say about this?

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