Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Tennis Math

Two evenly matched tennis players are playing a tiebreak set.

The server in any game wins each point with a fixed probability p,
where 0 < p < 1


For what values of p and score situations during a set can the player ahead according to the score have less than a 50% chance of winning the set?




Related topic :

Teaching Mathematics and Statistics Using Tennis


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