3. jessica is playing a board game with her mother. the spinner used for
the board game is broken up into 5 different colored pie shaped
pieces. in order to the win the game, jessica must try and get the
spinner to land on the color purple two times in a row. if she spins the
spinner twice, what is the probability that she will land on purple both
times?
oa.
1/100
ob
1/5
oc.
1/25
1/10
o d.
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Aprisoner is trapped in a cell containing three doors. the first door leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after two days of travel. the second leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after three days of travel. the third door leads immediately to freedom. (a) assuming that the prisoner will always select doors 1, 2 and 3 with probabili- ties 0.5,0.3,0.2 (respectively), what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (b) assuming that the prisoner is always equally likely to choose among those doors that he has not used, what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (in this version, if the prisoner initially tries door 1, for example, then when he returns to the cell, he will now select only from doors 2 and 3.) (c) for parts (a) and (b), find the variance of the number of days until the prisoner reaches freedom. hint for part (b): define ni to be the number of additional days the prisoner spends after initially choosing door i and returning to his cell.