Crazy Hall Problem

There is a game show host named Crazy Hall, he prepared 100000 doors, behind one of the doors is a car, and the others, goats, you'll never know what's behind the doors until you open it, and the host knows what's behind the doors.

The host selects you and asks you to pick a door, you randomly chose a door.

Before it is opened, the host opens the other 99998 doors to reveal 99998 goats. Leaving only 1 door left.

The host then asks you, pointing at the last remaining door: "Would you like to switch to this door?"

Suppose you switched to that door, what is the percentage of you winning a car?


This is one part of 1+1 is not = to 3 .


The answer is 99.999.

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2 solutions

Sajid Mamun
Oct 5, 2015

The probability of you picking a goat the first time is 99999 100000 \frac{99999}{100000} , which is 99.999%. Then, all other goat doors are revealed. The probability of you then switching to get the car is (after having picked a goat) is 100%.

The probability of you picking the car the first time is 1 100000 \frac{1}{100000} , which is 0.00001%. Then, 99998 out of the 99999 goats are revealed. Hence, the probability of you switching to get the car (if your first choice was a car) is 0%.

Hence, if you are definitely switching to the other door after picking an initial door, the only way to get the car is to first pick a goat, which is 99.999% likely. Otherwise, you could pick the car and you wouldn't get the car by switching, but this is only 0.00001% likely.

Hence it is 0.00001% likely to not get the car, and 99.999% likely to get the car.

Rocco Tenaglia
Oct 16, 2015

This is a play on a famous stats question of three doors, two with goats behind them and one with a car. It's simply an expanded version of that problem.

The trick is to note that the probability does not change if more doors are opened. In the original, there is a 2 3 \frac{2}{3} chance that you will pick a goat. If the other goat is revealed, no matter which goat you picked, the car will be in the third door, causing a 2 3 \frac{2}{3} chance that switching doors will give you a car.

The same principle applies here. With 100,000 doors to choose from, there is a 99999 100000 \frac{99999}{100000} chance that you will pick a goat. When every other goat is revealed, there is now a 99999 100000 \frac{99999}{100000} chance that the final door is the car.

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