Answer :
Given that In Playball, the player picks a single letter from A to Tand a single digit from 0 to 9. If both the letter and the digit match the letter and the
digit picked on that day, the player wins $280, changed to 250.
Game cost = 1 dollar
There are 20 alphabets and 9 digits
No of ways to select at random =
No of ways to win = 1
So probability to win =
Since he has to pay 1 dollar whether he wins or not
PDF of X amount net won or net value would be
X -1 249 Total
p 1
xp -
Expected value = 0.38889
digit picked on that day, the player wins $280, changed to 250.
Game cost = 1 dollar
There are 20 alphabets and 9 digits
No of ways to select at random =
No of ways to win = 1
So probability to win =
Since he has to pay 1 dollar whether he wins or not
PDF of X amount net won or net value would be
X -1 249 Total
p 1
xp -
Expected value = 0.38889