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Guessing suit (Posted on 2015-07-20) Difficulty: 2 of 5
A player draws the cards from the a 52-card deck one by one, without putting them back in the deck.
Every time before drawing a card he guesses the suit of the card he will draw.
He decides to always guess the suit that occurs most frequently in the remaining deck (if there are several such suits, he chooses any one of them).

Prove that he will guess the right suit at least 13 times.

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON    
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Some Thoughts simulation | Comment 7 of 13 |
Following the strategy, the following is the distribution of the number of hits:

 1     0
 2     0
 3     0
 4     0
 5     0
 6     0
 7     0
 8     0
 9     0
10     0
11     0
12     0
13   673
14  3022
15  6948
16 11863
17 15189
18 16616
19 14851
20 11656
21  8350
22  5194
23  2953
24  1519
25   701
26   292
27   113
28    39
29    12
30     6
31     3
32     0
33     0
34     0
35     0
36     0
37     0
38     0
39     0
40     0
41     0
42     0
43     0
44     0
45     0
46     0
47     0
48     0
49     0
50     0
51     0
52     0

The overall average number of hits was 18.41549.

DefDbl A-Z
Dim crlf$, sremain(4), shist(52)


Private Sub Form_Load()
 Form1.Visible = True
 
 Text1.Text = ""
 crlf = Chr$(13) + Chr$(10)

 For x = 1 To 10
 Randomize Timer
 For tr = 1 To 10000
  For i = 1 To 4
   sremain(i) = 13
  Next
  tremain = 52: score = 0
  For turn = 1 To 52
   mx = sremain(1): wh = 1
   For i = 2 To 4
    If sremain(i) > mx Then mx = sremain(i): wh = i
   Next
   r = Int(Rnd(1) * tremain + 1)
   For i = 1 To 4
     If sremain(i) >= r Then nxtcard = i: Exit For
     r = r - sremain(i)
   Next
   If nxtcard = wh Then score = score + 1
   sremain(nxtcard) = sremain(nxtcard) - 1
   tremain = tremain - 1
  Next turn
  shist(score) = shist(score) + 1
 Next tr
 Next x
 wttot = 0
 For i = 1 To 52
   Text1.Text = Text1.Text & mform(i, "##") & mform(shist(i), "#####0") & crlf
   wttot = wttot + i * shist(i)
   ntot = ntot + shist(i)
 Next
 Text1.Text = Text1.Text & wttot / ntot & crlf
 
 
 Text1.Text = Text1.Text & crlf & " done"
  
End Sub

Function mform$(x, t$)
  a$ = Format$(x, t$)
  If Len(a$) < Len(t$) Then a$ = Space$(Len(t$) - Len(a$)) & a$
  mform$ = a$
End Function


  Posted by Charlie on 2015-07-21 10:25:25
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