The Probability Is Right

Jordan Barrett

12:00, Friday, Oct. 4
BURN 1025



Let's face it; people suck at winning game shows. If you don't believe me, watch any of them for any amount of time. So what should you do if you happen to end up on the price is right but don't want to look like your average Joe? You come to the next pizza seminar where I'll give you all of the information you need to know to be the next Michael.

We'll look at the top 5 most popular games on The Price Is Right and go through (when applicable) the probability of winning, the expected amount won, and the optimal strategy. Lastly, in an effort to 1-up Benoit's talk, I'll be giving away prizes to the best guessers for some of these questions.

All graduate students are invited. As with all talks in the graduate student seminar, this talk will be accessible to all graduate students in math and stats.

This seminar was made possible by funding from the McGill mathematics and statistics department and PGSS.

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