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In a game show called “Squad Game”, there are n contestants labelled 1 to n, in a circle.Moving clockwise around the circle, starting with contestant 1, each contestant k who has not yet been eliminated nominates a contestant (which may be themselves) for possible elimination. Contestant k then rolls a fair 6-sided die, and if the result is a 6, then the nominated player is eliminated from the game. Play continues in this way until a fixed number L < n of players have been eliminated.(a) Suppose that we watch this game and observe the labels of the L players eliminated in the order in which they were eliminated. Describe a suitable sample space for this experiment.(b) Suppose instead that we watch such a game and observe only the labels of the L players eliminated. Describe a suitable sample space for this experiment.(c) Suppose instead that we watch such a game and observe only whether player 1 is eliminated. Describe a suitable sample space for this experiment.(d) Suppose that each player nominates a uniformly chosen player among those who have not yet been eliminated (i.e. if j < L players have been eliminated then the player whose turn it currently rolls a fair (n − j)-sided die to determine who they will nominate). Find the probability of each sample point in the three experiments (a)-(c) above.

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In a game show called “Squad Game”, there are n contestants labelled 1 to n, in a circle.Moving clockwise around the circle, starting with contestant 1, each contestant k who has not yet been eliminated nominates a contestant (which may be themselves) for possible elimination. Contestant k then rolls a fair 6-sided die, and if the result is a 6, then the nominated player is eliminated from the game. Play continues in this way until a fixed number L < n of players have been eliminated.(a) Suppose that we watch this game and observe the labels of the L players eliminated in the order in which they were eliminated. Describe a suitable sample space for this experiment.(b) Suppose instead that we watch such a game and observe only the labels of the L players eliminated. Describe a suitable sample space for this experiment.(c) Suppose instead that we watch such a game and observe only whether player 1 is eliminated. Describe a suitable sample space for this experiment.(d) Suppose that each player nominates a uniformly chosen player among those who have not yet been eliminated (i.e. if j < L players have been eliminated then the player whose turn it currently rolls a fair (n − j)-sided die to determine who they will nominate). Find the probability of each sample point in the three experiments (a)-(c) above.

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(a) The sample space for this experiment would be all possible ordered sequences of L distinct players chosen from n. This can be represented as permutations of n players taken L at a time, denoted as P(n, L).

(b) The sample space for this experiment would be all possible sets of L distinct players chosen from n. This can be represented as combinations of n players taken L at a time, denoted as C(n, L).

(c) The sample space for this experiment would be a binary set {0, 1}, where 0 represents player 1 not being eliminated and 1 represents player 1 being eliminated.

(d) For each turn, the probability of a player being nominated is 1/(n-j), where j is the number of players already eliminated. The probability of a player being eliminated is then the probability of being nominated multiplied by the probability of rolling a 6 on a 6-sided die, which is 1/6. Therefore, the probability of a player being eliminated on a given turn is (1/(n-j))*(1/6).

For experiment (a), the probability of each sample point would be (1/(n-j))*(1/6) raised to the power of L, as we are considering ordered sequences.

For experiment (b), the probability of each sample point would be the same as in (a), but we would also need to divide by L! (the number of ways to arrange L players) to account for the fact that order does not matter.

For experiment (c), the probability of player 1 being eliminated is the sum of the probabilities of them being eliminated on each turn, which would be a geometric series with common ratio (n-j)/(n-j+1). The probability of player 1 not being eliminated is simply 1 minus the probability of them being eliminated.

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