151.Best of Ten Lottery Slots
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A lottery ticket has 10 slots. Behind each slot is an independent number drawn uniformly from the interval (0,1), and your payout is the largest of the ten. What is the fair price of the ticket?
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Get the distribution of the maximum first: it is below x only if all ten draws are.
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