TED-Ed: The last banana: A thought experiment in probability - Leonardo Barichello

The video tutorial explains a dice game played on a desert island, where two players compete for the last banana. The rules are simple: player one wins if the highest number rolled is between one and four, while player two wins if it's five or six. Despite initial appearances, player two has a 56% chance of winning due to the distribution of possible outcomes. The video explores the concept of equiprobable events and demonstrates how to calculate probabilities using combinations and independent events. It emphasizes the randomness of dice rolls and how repeated trials align with theoretical probabilities over time.

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