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The following is supposedly a question given to mathematics graduates seeking jobs on Wall Street:
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A revolver handgun has a revolving cylinder with six chambers for bullets.
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It is loaded with the following procedure:
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1. Check the first chamber to the right of the trigger for a bullet. If a bullet
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is seen, the cylinder is rotated one chamber clockwise and the next chamber
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checked until an empty chamber is found.
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2. A cartridge containing a bullet is placed in the empty chamber.
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3. The cylinder is then rotated one chamber clockwise.
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To randomize the cylinder's position, the cylinder is spun, which causes the cylinder to take
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a random position from 1 to 6 chamber rotations clockwise from its starting position.
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When the trigger is pulled the gun will fire if there is a bullet in position 0, which is just
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counterclockwise from the loading position.
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The gun is unloaded by removing all cartridges from the cylinder.
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According to the legend, a suicidal Russian imperial military officer plays a game of Russian
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roulette by putting two bullets in a six-chamber cylinder and pulls the trigger twice.
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If the gun fires with a trigger pull, this is considered a successful suicide.
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The cylinder is always spun before the first shot, but it may or may not be spun after putting
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in the first bullet and may or may not be spun after taking the first shot.
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Which of the following situations produces the highest probability of suicide?
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A. Spinning the cylinder after loading the first bullet, and spinning again after the first shot.
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B. Spinning the cylinder after loading the first bullet only.
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C. Spinning the cylinder after firing the first shot only.
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D. Not spinning the cylinder either after loading the first bullet or after the first shot.
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E. The probability is the same for all cases.
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</blockquote>
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;Task:
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# Run a repeated simulation of each of the above scenario, calculating the percentage of suicide with a randomization of the four spinning, loading and firing order scenarios.
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# Show the results as a percentage of deaths for each type of scenario.
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# The hand calculated probabilities are 5/9, 7/12, 5/9, and 1/2. A correct program should produce results close enough to those to allow a correct response to the interview question.
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;Reference:
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Youtube video on the Russian 1895 Nagant revolver [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1mojMaEtM]]
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