78.Reaching Game Seven
★★★classical probabilityJane Street
Two evenly matched teams play a best-of-seven series, first to four wins, and each game is won by either team with probability 1/2 independently. What is the probability that the series goes the full seven games?
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A seventh game is played exactly when the first six games are split evenly. Count the six-game sequences with that property.
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