2009-11-06, 09:54 AM
I was going to make a whole new thread about this here, but then I saw this thread so I suppose it goes in here (even though it has nothing to do with homework).
It's about clean slate scrolls.
I was thinking about what scroll would have the highest possibility of getting you a slot back. I tried to solving the problem but didn't knew where to start.
So, the problem is as follows: Say you have an infinite amount of 1,5 and 20% clean slate scrolls, what is the chance to success? Which has the highest chance of success?
If I should guess, it would be best to use the 20% scroll, because, suppose there are other clean slate scrolls at x% with x in (0,0.5], so 0.5 having a 100% destroy rate at fail. Then the scroll with 50% has 50% chance of success. Which is definately more than the 1% scroll. (You have success after on average 100 tries, while it gets destroyed after ~50.5 tries. If it were also 50% chance, the chances would be the same.)
It looks like I just answered my own question but what I'm really interested in is the exact chance of the 1,5 and 20% scrolls.
GL
It's about clean slate scrolls.
I was thinking about what scroll would have the highest possibility of getting you a slot back. I tried to solving the problem but didn't knew where to start.So, the problem is as follows: Say you have an infinite amount of 1,5 and 20% clean slate scrolls, what is the chance to success? Which has the highest chance of success?
If I should guess, it would be best to use the 20% scroll, because, suppose there are other clean slate scrolls at x% with x in (0,0.5], so 0.5 having a 100% destroy rate at fail. Then the scroll with 50% has 50% chance of success. Which is definately more than the 1% scroll. (You have success after on average 100 tries, while it gets destroyed after ~50.5 tries. If it were also 50% chance, the chances would be the same.)
It looks like I just answered my own question but what I'm really interested in is the exact chance of the 1,5 and 20% scrolls.
GL