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Separate signed attack advantage from damage clipped at zero
A board game uses eight-sided dice. The attack die has five faces marked 0, two marked 1 and one marked 2. After the attack throw, the defender throws a defence die with two faces marked 0, four marked 1 and two marked 2. Damage is attack score minus defence score, except that a negative difference gives zero damage.
Let A,D denote the attack and defence scores.
(i) Write down their distributions. Hence find the expectation and variance of . marks
X is the damage in one round.
(ii) Find its distribution, expectation and variance. marks
(iii) Explain why although . mark
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CJC · Review problems · Question 11
Calculate the signed difference first, then apply the game’s zero-damage floor.