Illustrating basic probability calculations using `Craps'

Author: Johnson, Roger W.

Source: Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, Volume 25, Number 2, June 2006 , pp. 97-103(7)

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Abstract:

Instructors may use the gambling game of craps to illustrate the use of a number of fundamental probability identities. For the `pass-line' bet we focus on the chance of winning and the expected game length. To compute these, probabilities of unions of disjoint events, probabilities of intersections of independent events, conditional probabilities and conditional expectations are encountered.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hri012

Publication date: 2006-06-01

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