137.Doors You Can Open
★★★expected valueJane Street
There are 100 doors numbered 1 to 100, each hiding one dollar. A fair 100-sided die is rolled 100 times, and afterwards you may open every door whose number came up at least once. What is the expected amount collected?
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Put an indicator on each door and ask how likely it is that its number never appears across all the rolls.
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