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You are the general of an army. You and the opposing general both have an equal number of troops to distribute among three battlefields. Whoever has more troops on a battlefield always wins (you win ties). An order is an ordered triple of non-negative real numbers (x,y,z)(x, y, z) such that x+y+z=1x+y+z=1, and corresponds to sending a fraction xx of the troops to the first field, yy to the second, and zz to the third. Suppose that you give the order (14,14,12)\left(\frac{1}{4}, \frac{1}{4}, \frac{1}{2}\right) and that the other general issues an order chosen uniformly at random from all possible orders. What is the probability that you win two out of the three battles?
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You are the general of an army. You and the opposing general both have an equal number of troops to distribute among three battlefields. Whoever has more troops on a battlefield always wins (you win ties). An order is an ordered triple of non-negative real numbers (x,y,z) such that x+y+z=1, and corresponds to sending a fraction x of the troops to the first field, y to the second, and z to the third. Suppose that you give the order ((1)/(4),(1)/(4),(1)/(2)) and that the other general issues an order chosen uniformly at random from all possible orders. What is the probability that you win two out of the three battles?
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You are the general of an army. You and the opposing general both have an equal number of troops to distribute among three battlefields. Whoever has more troops on a battlefield always wins (you win ties). An order is an ordered triple of non-negative real numbers $(x, y, z)$ such that $x+y+z=1$, and corresponds to sending a fraction $x$ of the troops to the first field, $y$ to the second, and $z$ to the third. Suppose that you give the order $\left(\frac{1}{4}, \frac{1}{4}, \frac{1}{2}\right)$ and that the other general issues an order chosen uniformly at random from all possible orders. What is the probability that you win two out of the three battles?

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