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About Scotto
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Calculus - Probability


Expert: Scotto - 6/23/2009

Question
There are four independant systems that generate either a Win or Loss output.The Win % on each system per month is  28%,35%,45% & 62%. What is my overall winning % each month?TH? .

Answer
THe win on the total of four systems, assuming they are all independent of each other and played separately, is found by adding up the probabilities.  That will give you the number of wins you get each month at four games of gambling.

That would be 0.28 + 0.35 + 0.45 + 0.62 = 1.70.

That means out of of four games, you could almost expect to win two.
If this were done for ten months, the average says that 17 of the games would have been won out of the 40 played.


I don't know what TH? means.

Is that for these odds being Tail/Head
on four different biased coins?


The chance of winning all of the probabilitities would be
the product of 0.28, 0.35, 0.45, and 0.62.

That would be 0.027342.

The chance of winning all but one would be the sum of four sets of four probabilities where three were one and the other lossed.  The chance of losing each one is one minus the chance of winning.

These would be 1 - 0.28= 0.72; 1 - 0.35 = 0.65;
1 - 0.45= 0.55; and 1 - 0.62 = 0.38.
The chane of getting at only three wins would be the sum
0.016758 + 0.033418 + 0.050778 + 0.070308 = 0.171262.

The chance of getting at only 2 wins would be the sum of 6 products.
You could win 1&2, 1&3, 1&4, 2&3, 2&4, or 3&4.  The final answer is
0.373262.

I put the chances in a spreadsheet and calculated the odds of winning 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 games.
For 0 games, the chance is 0.097812.
For 1 game, the chance is 0.330322.
For 2 games, the chance is 0.373262.
For 3 games, the chance is 0.171262.
For 4 games, the chance is 0.027342.

So even though two games is the most likely, the arerage is less than 2 since the chance of winning less than two is 0.428134 and the chance of winning more than two is only 0.198604.

Does this have anything at all to do with TH?  

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