Consider the Matching Pennies Game

question 11

Multiple Choice

Consider the Matching Pennies game:

Suppose Player A always uses a pure strategy that selects heads. What is Player B's optimal response to this pure strategy?

• A) Always select heads.
• B) Always select tails.
• C) Mixed strategy with probability 1/2 on heads and 1/2 on tails
• D) There is no optimal pure or mixed strategy for this situation.

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