Timeline for Mean Waiting Time for a dice rolling game
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| Sep 8 at 3:09 | vote | accept | user19904 | ||
| Sep 7 at 23:22 | comment | added | Henry | If they were looking at the results of the same die, the probability of Peter's pattern coming before Paula's is the same as the probability of Paula's coming before Peter's so each $\frac12$ (first throw until you get a $1$, then if you immediately throw as $1$ or $2$ then stop with your winner, and otherwise start again). But that race is not the question, which is instead about expectations of numbers of throws. | |
| Sep 7 at 16:29 | comment | added | whuber♦ | For more on this problem (or very closely related version of it) please see stats.stackexchange.com/questions/12174 and stats.stackexchange.com/questions/544811. | |
| Sep 6 at 23:34 | answer | added | Dave2e | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 6 at 23:20 | comment | added | jginestet | Peter and Paula are not using the same die; each has their own. So Paula can not use Peter's result.. | |
| Sep 6 at 22:49 | history | asked | user19904 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |