You are on death row, but get to play russian roulette: Would you rather?: (continue reading in post) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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No using search engines or calculator, just imagine you were given these choices in jail and got 30 seconds to choose.

Would you rather have the executioner (Please excuse my use of firearm terminology, I'm not an expert in guns):

[A] Load 1 chamber of 6 and spin before pull the trigger 6 times (spinning the chamber after each pull)

[B] Load 2 chamber of 6 and spin before pull the trigger 3 times (spinning the chamber after each pull)

[C] Load 4 chamber of 6 and spin before pull the trigger once

If you survive, you are pardoned of all crimes you've committed in the past and get to leave prison (alive, obviously), no compensation tho. (Attempts to end your own life is illegal)

Which of these options would you pick?

No search engine, no calculator pls. I'm bored and wanna make this fun. 😉

If you are confused, ask in comments.

Edit: Reworded it to clarify that the chamber is spinned before the first trigger is pulled.

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[-] Slyme@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago

Attempts to end your own life is illegal

What are they gonna do? Kill me?

Also, I'm gonna say B before doing the math.

I've done the math, I think.

Okay, the probability of living is the amount of unloaded chambers over the amount of chambers in total to the power of the amount of shots taken. Given that, we can conclude that...

Option A ((5/6)^6) gives you a 33.49% chance of survival,
Option B ((4/6)^3) gives you a 29.63% chance of survival, and
Option C ((2/6)^1) gives you a 33.33% chance of survival

So, turns out, I've chosen the worst odds. Whoops. However, they're so close that it honestly doesn't matter that much.

Also, sorry to those whose clients don't do spoilers. I'm with you on that one, I use Eternity.

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