Aperson tosses a fair coin until a tail appears for the first time. if the tail appears on the nth flip, the person wins

2n

dollars. let x denote the player’s winnings. show that

e[x]=+[infinity]

this problem is known as the st. petersburg paradox.

(a) would you be willing to pay $1 million to play this game once?

(b) would you be willing to pay $1 million for each game if you could play for as long as you liked and only had to settle up when you stopped playing?

you forgot the options, but i found them anyways, the correct answer is "john wilson believes that words and actions based on the intellect are superior to those based on emotions".

john wilson is depicted as an extremely intelligent man. the point of the excerpt is to make a sort of distinction between emotional and rational intelligence. he happens to have both attributes, but he clearly favors his intellectual gifts. at the same time, because of his religious background, he's a little bit conflicted with this and it makes him ashamed.

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