A Football Tournament Is Conducted Between Team-A and Team-B of a College

question 52

Essay

A football tournament is conducted between Team-A and Team-B of a college and the winner being the first team to win four games of seven games. The probability that Team-A wins each game are as follows:
a. Set up a spreadsheet simulation model in which whether Team-A wins each game is a random variable.
b. What is the probability that the Team- A win the tournament?
c. What is the average number of games played regardless of winner?

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Definitions:

Dixiecrats

Lower South delegates who walked out of the 1948 Democratic national convention in protest of the party’s support for civil rights legislation and later formed the States’ Rights Democratic (Dixiecrat) Party, which nominated Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president.

1948 Convention

Likely refers to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

Civil Rights Plan

Strategies and policies designed to eliminate discrimination and ensure equal rights for all citizens, particularly in contexts of racial and social injustice.

Federal Civil Rights Commission

An independent, bipartisan agency established by the U.S. government responsible for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues in the United States.