Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2006 Paper 1 7 b iii Solution Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
This is a two-turn renewal game. A full pair of throws has probability of passing twice and returning to the original state. The probability that wins before that restart is . Thus first-step analysis gives , orEquivalently sum the geometric series . The probability of surviving infinitely many pairs is zero, so the eventual winner is well defined with probability one.