HMMT 2013 C10
- Combinatorics
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern each start with and are flipping a fair coin. When the coin comes up heads Rosencrantz pays Guildenstern and when the coin comes up tails Guildenstern pays Rosencrantz . Let be the number of dollars Rosencrantz is ahead of his starting amount after flips. Compute the expected value of .
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\frac{-1}{2}+\frac{(1007)\binom{2013}{1006}}{2^{2012}}
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