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There are two person, the bank and the player.
There are two person, the bank and the player.
The player can choose to put a bet on how much times the number '''6''' is extracted at the same time on all '''5''' dices, if the times he said is right he'll win the prize, otherwise he'll lose and bank will win.
Let's say they have 5 dices and create a game like this:
The prize is 6$ for each '''6''' he bet, so if i will bet that there will be 3 dices with '''6''', he will win 18$.


If the number of die is more than 1 it's naturally a easily win for bank as we saw earlier, but if the die is unique it's equiprobal and bank and user should't win or lose.
0 to 1 times dice with '6': bank win 1$
2 to 3 times dice with '6': user win 2$
4 times dice with '6': user win 3$
5 times dice with '6': user lose 3$


Let's take an example:
Let's calculate the probability:


User bet on extracting 2 '''6'''
Probability for player:


Probability for user:  
The player can win only with 2-3 times '6' or 4 times '6', so if we want to process the probability with kalgebra it will be:
{{Input|1=probability(5, 2, 6, 1, 5)}}
 
{{Output|1= = 0.160751028807}}
{{Input|
binomial(5,1/6,2)+binomial(5,1/6,3)+binomial(5,1/6,4)
}}
{{Output|
=0.196116255144
}}


Probability for bank:
Probability for bank:


{{Input|1=1-probability(5, 2, 6, 1, 5)}}
The bank can win only with 0-1 times '6' or 5 times'6', so if we want to process the probability with kalgebra it will be:
{{Output|1= = 0.839248971193}}
 
The bank as we can see is more advantaged.


The only way the user and bank are balanced is when the prize are distributed as the distribution of numbers goes, so the prize should improve exponentially as probability therefore the formula to get prize should be 6^(number of 6)$.
{{Input|
binomial(5,1/6,0)+binomial(5,1/6,1)+binomial(5,1/6,5)
}}
{{Output|
=0.803883744856
}}


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This page shows some uses of KAlgebra in probabilities problem

Introduction

Let's say we have 5 dices and we want to gamble with them.

Theory behind game

First we have to analyze one die:

The probability to get a number on a dice is 1/6 or 16,667% because the total numbers of events is 6 and the die is equiprobal.

The probability to get each number is on the left

    1    16.667%
    2	 16.667%
    3    16.667% 
    4	 16.667% 
    5    16.667% 
    6	 16.667% 

When we launch 2 dices probabilities change, so we report them:

    2	 2.778%
    3	 5.556%
    4	 8.333%
    5 	 11.111%
    6 	 13.889%
    7 	 16.667%
    8 	 13.889%
    9	 11.111%
    10   8.333%
    11	 5.556%
    12   2.778%

Why is the probability for each number so different respect to first one, you may ask, the solution is very simple. Let's take '4' and make all the combinations of 2 numbers that summed gives 4:

   1+3 = 4
   3+1 = 4
   2+2 = 4


So we have to sum the probability of these numbers to get the total probability of 4. Let's test it:

  Prob(1,3) + Prob(3,1) + Prob(2,2) = 1/6 * 1/6 + 1/6 * 1/6 + 1/6 * 1/6 = 0.08333 = 8,333%

So if we have 5 dice, we should get for each resulting number the 5 numbers on dice that summed up give us it. The way to get the probabilities of each number with more dices is equal.

The probability problem

Now we mind at a problem, if we roll our 5 dice and we want 3 '6', what is the probability to get them?

ok, the problem is: probability on first dice * probability on second dice * probability on third dice * negative probability on fourth * negative probability on fifth

So for instance the dice can be: 6 6 6 2 3, but they can also be 5 6 6 6 1, so we have to introduce a binomial coefficient to count all this cases. To have the the binomial coefficient of N numbers on M position the formula for KAlgebra is:

factorial(N) / (factorial(M) * factorial(N-M))

or simply:

comb(N,M)

So the binomial coefficient of 3 numbers on 5 position is:

comb(5,3)
=	10


so at last our function will be:

(comb(5, 3)*(1/6)*(1/6)*(1/6)*(5/6)*(5/6))
=	0.0321502

We can now define a simple function to get the result:

probability:=(place, case, totalprobability, positive, negative)->
(comb(place, case)*(positive/totalprobability)^case)*(negative/totalprobability)^(place-case)

So now:

probability(5, 3, 6, 1, 5)
=	0.0321502

It's the probability on 5 extraction to get 3 identical number where the probability of each card is 1/6 and the negative probability is 5/6

We can notice that the sum of probabilities is 1:

sum(probability(5, t, 6, 1, 5):t=0..5)
=	1


We can think that the probability progress until the maximum value and then it decrease constantly as it has progressed. So we can see that the distribution of numbers among the extraction is like a bell, this kind of distribution is called distribution.

So now we understand that the game is non balanced, there are probabilities better than other so who choose the best can win easily.

The only way to have a fair game is to gambling with only one die because each face has 1/6 of probability. Another type of equiprobal chances are the launch of a coin where each face is 1/2 of probability.

A simple way where a player can win is to improve the probability on a face so it will be unbalanced, for istance the bank in a game can put a small load on the face with '6' so the probabilities change and the dice now became:

0.15 	 1
0.15	 2
0.15	 3
0.15	 4
0.15	 5
0.25	 6

So now if we roll the 5 dices with this probability and we want 3 '6' to win the total probability is:

probability(5, 3, 6, 2, 4)
=	0.164609053498


Snapshot of KAlgebra window doing calculations about probabilities
Snapshot of KAlgebra window doing calculations about probabilities

Real World Example

There are two person, the bank and the player. Let's say they have 5 dices and create a game like this:

0 to 1 times dice with '6': bank win 1$ 2 to 3 times dice with '6': user win 2$ 4 times dice with '6': user win 3$ 5 times dice with '6': user lose 3$

Let's calculate the probability:

Probability for player:

The player can win only with 2-3 times '6' or 4 times '6', so if we want to process the probability with kalgebra it will be:

binomial(5,1/6,2)+binomial(5,1/6,3)+binomial(5,1/6,4)
{{{1}}}

Probability for bank:

The bank can win only with 0-1 times '6' or 5 times'6', so if we want to process the probability with kalgebra it will be:

binomial(5,1/6,0)+binomial(5,1/6,1)+binomial(5,1/6,5)
{{{1}}}