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Tennis Consider a game of tennis between player A and player B that has reached the state deuce (or 40–40). Continuing from this point, after each rally, the game will be in one of the five states—-A wins, B wins, Deuce, Advantage A, or Advantage B. Suppose that the stochastic matrix for the remainder of the game is
a. What is the probability that player A will win the game? Player B?
b. What is the expected number of rallies?
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