My cousins and I were playing the game mafia, where everyone gets a card and the person with a jack is a character called mafia but no one knows which card people have until the end of the round. My cousin Teddy got mafia three times in a row. On the fourth time, my cousin Johnny said Teddy might be in the mafia. I said I didn't think so because he had mafia three times already. Johnny said it didn't matter because every time the cards were reshuffled the odds were all the same for everyone and it doesn't matter what people had earlier. I said not completely true. It is rare to get mafia three times in a row and the odds were even less to get mafia four times in a row so therefore the odds were not the same. Who's right in this pathetic fight and can anyone put numbers to it? There were 10 players: 2 mafia, one doctor, one detective, and 6 villagers. It doesn't matter the rules. I just want to know the odds to get mafia 3 times compared to 4 times.
2007-12-04
06:41:30
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Mary S
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Mathematics