Question

marcus is playing a carnival game where he must guess the color of a candy bean before he pulls it out of a hat he gets five tries and will earn 3 points everytime he guesses correctly however he will lose one point for every incorrect guess if there are 4 red,2 green,and 2 yellow candy beans in the hat and marcus guesses red every time how many points can he expect to earn A.1 point B.1.5 points C.2 points D.0 points

Answer 1

the expected value is the point he wins times the probability he wins them added up
it is a bit of a computation but we can do it