321.Expected Heads Given at Least Two
★★★conditional probabilityJane Street
Four fair coins are flipped and you are paid for each head. Given that at least two heads appeared, what is the expected payout?
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Restrict to the outcomes with two or more heads and renormalise. The counts of each case come straight from the binomial coefficients.
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