340.Ten Dollars for Four Heads
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A game costs to enter. You flip a fair coin four times, and if all four come up heads you are paid ; otherwise you are paid nothing. What is the expected payout of a single play, before the entry fee?
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Only one of the sixteen equally likely sequences pays.
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