HMMT 2011 T7
- Team 1
Let denote the number of coins determined tails and denote the number of coins determined heads at the end of the game. Let be the probability that after a game with coins, assuming that the player follows the optimal strategy outlined in problem 6. Clearly if is an odd integer, so we need only consider the case when is an even integer. (By definition, and for . Prove that for all nonnegative integers .
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