Question 20

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Three players named Arun, Babita and Chandu play a game by tossing an unbiased coin in turn whose rules are as follows:
Initially each player has 100 candies. If the tossing of this coin results in a ‘head’ then the player who tosses receives 10 candies from each of the other two players, whereas, if the toss results in a ‘tail’ then the player who tosses has to give away 20 candies to each of the other two players. A player with the highest number of candies at the end will be the winner. The game is started by Arun, followed by Babita and finally stopped after Chandu’s turn. Given that Arun is the only winner, which of the following hold(s) true?
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2026XH-C5

GATE XH-C5 2026 · Paper 1

Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) · Original paper archive

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Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology)
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Multiple select (MSQ)
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2 marks

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