Jane Street

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Jane Street

You have a lottery ticket with 10 slots. Behind each slot is an independently and uniformly distributed number between 0 and 1. Your payout is the maximum of these ten numbers. How much should you be willing to pay for the lottery ticket (i.e., what is the expected value of your payout)?

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