On each draw you bet half of your present fortune that you


1. You have 80 dollars and play the following game. An urn contains two white balls and two black balls. You draw the balls out one at a time without replacement until all the balls are gone. On each draw, you bet half of your present fortune that you will draw a white ball. What is your expected final fortune?

2. In the hat check problem (see Example 3.12), it was assumed that N people check their hats and the hats are handed back at random. Let Xj = 1 if the jth person gets his or her hat and 0 otherwise. Find E(Xj ) and E(Xj · Xk ) for j not equal to k. Are Xj and Xk independent?

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