Monty Hall Problem: Let's Make A Deal

1. Problem Statement: For this Problem of the Week we were required to find out if our chances of winning Let’s Make A Deal were higher if we switched to the other door or stayed with our original door after a worthless prize was revealed behind one of the doors we did not chose. The game show host knew what was behind each door, so every time he would reveal something worthless behind one of the doors you did not choose after you made your first choice. Then he would allow you to switch doors from your original door to the other remaining door. Basically, we evaluated if switching or staying worked best.

At the end of the story, “The Lady or the Tiger,” the man had a choice to pick which door. The main question is which door did he pick? The one with the tiger that would lead to certain death or the door that had the lady behind it in which he would have gotten married to. I believe the princess lead him to opened the one with the tiger. Even though she would have had to watch her lover die a painful death I don’t think she could have bared to watch him be with another. One other reason it leads me to believe she picked that one is because she was semi-barbaric, like her father. It even said in the story that she enjoyed watching them as much as he did. The princess knew the game and knew that if she picked the one with the lady behind it they would be happily married.

door she has to go through the first fence door, and wait for it to close before the second

Matt opens the wooden handle on the door that has an oval like shape made out of glass that he can see through with white symmetrical designs that look kinda like petals of a flower. I finally opened the door and say

Imagine this--you’ve committed a crime that has caught the king’s attention. You are innocent nevertheless, he sentences you to a trial in his new arena where you unknowingly pick between two doors. One of the doors holds a snarling tiger that would viciously pounce in a second and the other holds a beautiful lady for you to marry. It seemed unfair that your life depends on chance but you knew no one would question the king. During the trial, you stand before a large crowd, pondering which door contained the hungry tiger and which contained the angelic maiden.

In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, doors represent both barriers and secrecy. Dr. Jekyll has barriers around his secret life, he tries to block people out so they will not discover his secrets. Secrecy is an important theme in the novel, and doors symbolize keeping these secrets. Doors can symbolize both an opportunity and a barrier. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, they are mainly used as a barrier.

“May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears”, Nelson Mandela. In the story “The Lady and the Tiger” and the article “The Monty Hall Debate” the tough topic of decisions comes up. In the “Lady or the Tiger” a young, semi-barbaric princess has to choose the fate of her lover and whether she should let him marry another woman or die. And in “The Monty Hall Debate” people argue if you should switch doors in a game show or not. The choices people make in life and how they make them reflect their human nature because in “The Lady and the Tiger” the author leaves the story on a cliffhanger and whatever door we think the princess choose reflects our view of human nature and the weather we think that we should switch doors in the Monty Hall

a wooden door on a wall with no windows, and is revealed to lead to

Why? On the other side of the door is a mirror, and I will have to see myself. I’m not afraid of what I am. I’m afraid I will see what I am not” (Winterson 288). The dress designer is implying that she is fearful when she admits that she is running away from the bolted door. Opening the door means letting go of a restricted, goal driven mindset the dress designer developed in order to view life in a new perspective. It also means letting go of her fantasies. However, the dress designer is fearful of facing reality because her dreams are invoking the fear. Her dreams are what she uses to define herself. She does not want to let go of her dreams because accepting her reality or her flaws will strip her of her pride. Therefore this will make her feel fearful of expanding her horizons. Because of the dress designer’s fear of letting go of her dream, she is not open to trying out new things. She is not open to trying a new career path, or doing other things than what she mentioned in the text such as partying. Although De Botton mentions a destination and not a dream, De Botton and the dress designer’s points are very similar because they are both goals in which focus is put on and aspects that are considered relevant to their lives. The dreams or goals that were held up so high are putting limitations on both of their realities. The dress designer is shrinking her reality by simply

The Monty Hall problem is based off of a paradox that is very commonly misunderstood. The Monty Hall problem originated from the popular game show called Let’s Make a Deal. The host, Monty Hall shows the contestant three doors and explains that behind two of the doors await goats, and behind the third door awaits a new car. If you choose the door with the car behind it, you get to keep it. What’s the catch?

The choice he makes of the two doors solely depending on a Semi-Barbaric princess. Whose train of thought might be different from that of a person who is sound of mind. Being of her background, she would easily have led the youth to the door of the beast. Her choice would reflect these three reasons her jealousy, upbringing and her pride.

For the scene in the film 21, the professor uses the game show example for Ben and ends up giving him three doors to choose from. Door number one included the car while the other two doors included goats. Ben ends up choosing door number one which included the car. Later on, professor Rosa uses the game show example again but this time he decides to open door number three by tricking Ben into choosing a door with a goat. For this time around, Ben ends up choosing door number two where the car was moved.

Our choices not only affect us, but affect everyone else around us. This stands very true in this story in which where the Princess chose the door with the tiger behind it. We have reason to believe that the Princess picked the door with the tiger behind it because of her actions and thoughts. As we see all through the story we observe that the Princess says many questionable things that suggest that she would have opened the door with the tiger.

Let’s make a deal is a game of chance, the contestant is given three doors, behind two of the doors is a goat, behind the third door is a red sports car. The contestant only has to select the door with the car behind it to win. 30 times the first selection was not changed and the results were less favorable than the 20 times the selection was switched. A chart has been inserted to clearly demonstrate the results.

At the start of the life cycle, “Monty Hall”, a game show host, randomly places a car (a prize) behind one door and goats behind the remaining two doors.