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20k guaranteed or coin flip for 100k?
Posted on 6/30/16 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 6/30/16 at 7:56 pm
Hypothetical not involving jolly ranchers.
You're on a game show and this is the deal:
There is $20,000 cash in front of you. You can take the cash and go home if you'd like OR you can flip a coin one time for $100,000 cash.
Personally, I flip the coin.
You're on a game show and this is the deal:
There is $20,000 cash in front of you. You can take the cash and go home if you'd like OR you can flip a coin one time for $100,000 cash.
Personally, I flip the coin.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 7:56 pm to DrownEmTide
Flip. 20k is ok, but not life changing.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 7:58 pm to tom
quote:
Flip. 20k is ok, but not life changing.
Neither is $100k
Posted on 6/30/16 at 7:58 pm to DrownEmTide
20k cash. Max out an IRA and Could enjoy my last year in college while only working 20 hrs a week instead of 60.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 7:59 pm to DrownEmTide
I'll take the 20. I'll turn it in to 200k within a year.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 7:59 pm to SPEEDY
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Neither is $100k
Exactly. If it isn't life changing you have to play the odds. If the amount is life changing the 50/50 odds are worse than the 100% chance of a life changing but smaller amount.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:00 pm to Cosmo
You're right. It would be a shitty coin flip to lose though. I feel like having nothing at stake changes my view a little on the whole odds thing too.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:00 pm to Niklaus Mikaelson
What's up PocketAces
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:00 pm to SPEEDY
quote:
Neither is $100k
Then you go to the roulette wheel and bet on green.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:06 pm to DrownEmTide
$20k. I suck at gambling, even with those odds.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:09 pm to DrownEmTide
How many jolly ranchers (weight in lbs) could I buy with $20k vs 100k?
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:09 pm to DrownEmTide
Take my chances flipping a coin
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:10 pm to DrownEmTide
I'll pay someone $100k if these stupid arse "do this or get this amount of money" threads.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:10 pm to DrownEmTide
I'd flip the coin. If you said 20m or 100m, I'd take the 20m. I get the percentages, but 20m is enough for me and all my family to live happily forever. Not sure how the extra 80m would improve that.
Posted on 6/30/16 at 8:14 pm to DrownEmTide
I would flip. I mean, frick. What's the big deal with taking one month's pay up-front? This is the OT. Amirite?
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