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3 years ago

What is u decreased by 17

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U decreased by 17 is u-17.
if you decrease a number from something, you use subtraction.

therefore, u decreased by 17 is u-17

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Further Explanation:

Let's label the three scenarios like so

scenario A: selecting a black card
scenario B: selecting a red card that is less than 5
scenario C: selecting anything that doesn't fit with the previous scenarios

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Now onto scenario B.

The cards that are less than five are: {A, 2, 3, 4}. I'm considering aces to be smaller than 2. There are 2 sets of these values to account for the two red suits (hearts and diamonds), meaning there are 4*2 = 8 such cards out of 52 total. Then note that 8/52 = 2/13. The probability of winning $10 is 2/13. Though the net pay off here is 10-1 = 9 dollars to account for the cost to play the game.

So far the fractions we found for scenarios A and B were: 1/2 and 2/13

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Next, subtract the value from 1

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Here's a table to organize everything so far

$\begin{array}{|c|c|c|}\cline{1-3}\text{Scenario} & \text{Probability} & \text{Net Payoff}\\ \cline{1-3}\text{A} & 1/2 & 1\\ \cline{1-3}\text{B} & 2/13 & 9\\ \cline{1-3}\text{C} & 9/26 & -1\\ \cline{1-3}\end{array}$

What we do from here is multiply each probability with the corresponding net payoff. I'll write the results in the fourth column as shown below

$\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|}\cline{1-4}\text{Scenario} & \text{Probability} & \text{Net Payoff} & \text{Probability * Payoff}\\ \cline{1-4}\text{A} & 1/2 & 1 & 1/2\\ \cline{1-4}\text{B} & 2/13 & 9 & 18/13\\ \cline{1-4}\text{C} & 9/26 & -1 & -9/26\\ \cline{1-4}\end{array}$

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X= A^-1 B

X = 1/10 $\left[\begin{array}{cc}2&3\\4&1\end{array}\right]$ $\left[\begin{array}{c}2&22\end{array}\right]$

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