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Exercise 10

Avg difficulty 2.5

You purchase a raffle ticket to help out a charity. The raffle ticket costs $10. The charity is selling 1000 tickets. One of them will be drawn and the person holding the ticket will be given a prize worth $3000. Compute the expected value for this raffle.

Lee et al., Math in Society, §4.3 Expected Value, Exercise 10

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