In the computer solitaire game "Freecell", statistics are kept for the largest winning streak, largest losing streak, and the percentage of games won.
Being mildly addicted to the game, I was not suprised to see that I had won 60 consecutive games while only losing 3 consecutive games.
Two questions based on this information:
1) What is my expected percentage of games won?
2) How many more games will I have to play before I have an even chance of a winning streak of 100 games?
1) My expected percentage of ganes won is about 90.56.
2) we increase the number of games in each trial to 139,000 or 140,000, we get about an equal possibility of achieving or not achieving a string of 100 wins.
Edited on May 26, 2023, 2:31 am
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