A probability-minded despot offers a convicted urder a final chance to gain his

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A probability-minded despot offers a convicted urder a final chance to gain his release. The prisoner is given twenty chips, ten white and ten blakc. All twenty are to be placed intwo two urns, according to any allocation scheme the prisoner wishes, with the one proivison being that each urn contain at least one white chip. The executioner will ten pick one of the two urns at random and form that urn, one chip at random. If the chip selected is white, the prisoner will be set free; if it is black , he "buys the farm." Characterize the sample space describing the prisoner's possible allocaiton options.

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A probability-minded despot offers a convicted urder a final chance to gain his

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