Optiver–styleTraderTraderQuestion #24

How many levels can you build with 52 cards (a standard deck of cards)? What is the expected value (EV) of throwing a single die, and the EV of the sum of two dice rolled once and rolled 400 times? How would you create a market based on these expected values?

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