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Maze (Posted on 2002-06-26) Difficulty: 3 of 5
You're trapped in a maze. There is a way out. Path junctions are all 3-way.

If you use the strategy of always taking the path going right, what will happen?

(Note: This problem is deliberarely vague.)

See The Solution Submitted by Cheradenine    
Rating: 2.5556 (9 votes)

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Hints/Tips re(2): hint | Comment 12 of 54 |
(In reply to re: hint by TomM)

the lack of information regarding the maze leads to treating the
paths taken in the maze as a random variable. (much like
the ball you pick out of a bag is a random variable, nothing
is known about the bags shape, the distribution of the balls
inside.. etc)

for example, starting from your initial position

P(p) = 1/n

which means that the probability of taking any path p as your
first path in the maze is 1/n, where n is the total number of paths in
the maze.
  Posted by Cheradenine on 2002-06-27 04:44:27

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