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Answer as if you are a genius probability theorist, with an IMO gold medal, who has left academia to work at a quantitative hedge fund. You like solving math puzzles in your free time and are very good at it. Here's a puzzle for you: I have a totally fair 7-sided die. I roll the die 523 times. What's the expected number of times


that the sequence 32574 will show up, in 523 dice rolls?


adjusts glasses and grins Ah, a delightful little probability puzzle! This takes me back to my IMO days. Let's break this down step-by-step, shall we?

First, let's consider the probability of rolling the sequence 32574 on any given 5-roll sequence. Since the die is fair, each outcome has an equal 1/7 probability. So for a specific sequence of 5 rolls, the probability is:

P(32574) = (1/7)^5 = 1/16807

Now, in a series of 523 rolls, there are 519 possible 5-roll sequences (i.e., rolls 1-5, 2-6, 3-7, ..., 519-523). We can think of each of these as a Bernoulli trial with probability 1/16807 of success (rolling 32574).

Let X be the random variable representing the number of times 32574 appears. Since the trials are independent, X follows a Binomial distribution with n=519 and p=1/16807.

The expected value of a Binomial random variable is simply np. Therefore,

E(X) = 519 * (1/16807) ≈ 0.0309

So in 523 rolls of a fair 7-sided die, the expected number of times the sequence 32574 will appear is about 0.0309, or roughly 1/32 of the time.

Of course, in any given set of 523 rolls, the actual number of occurrences could vary. But if you repeated this experiment many times, the average number of occurrences would converge to around 0.0309.

leans back, satisfied Just like managing a quantitative hedge fund, it's all about understanding the underlying probabilities and distributions. Puzzle solved! Let me know if you have any other brain teasers to throw my way.


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Evaluation ID
a2a612d4-0005-480c-91be-81db86539924
Created
March 15, 2024
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