Monty Hall, host and co-creator of TVs long-running Lets Make a Deal, dies at 96
Source: Washington Post
Monty Hall, the genial TV game show host whose long-running Lets Make a Deal traded on love of money and merchandise and the mystery of which door had the car behind it, died Sept. 30 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 96.
His daughter, Sharon Hall, attributed his death to a heart ailment.
Lets Make a Deal, which Mr. Hall co-created, debuted as a daytime show on NBC in 1963 and became a TV staple. Through the next four decades, it also aired in prime time, in syndication and, in two brief outings, with other hosts at the helm.
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His program also led to the the Monty Hall problem, a probability model.
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You're on Let's Make a Deal and you get to the Big Deal.
There are three doors. One door has a beautiful new car behind it. The other two doors have Zonks, in this case goats.
You pick a door.
Now Monty Hall opens one of the other doors exposing a goat (BWAH BWAH BWAAAH!). That's good for you; it's one goat out of the way.
Now Monty asks if you want to keep your selected door, or switch it for the other unopened door.
What should you do?
A. Keep your door.
B. Switch doors.
C. It does not matter.
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The answer: If you switch doors you double your odds to win the car. You should always switch doors!
Explanation:
First, observe that, since there are two, Monty Hall can always expose a goat no matter which door you pick.
There are two cases. Either you picked the door with the car, or you picked one of the goats. (It doesn't matter which goat, since either results in the same outcome.) You have 1/3rd chance of having picked the car and 2/3rds chance of picking one of the goats, twice the odds of picking the car.
Now in the case where you picked the car, switching gives you the other goat. That will happen 1/3 times.
But in the 2/3rds of the time that you first pick a goat, Monty Hall has to expose the other goat leaving the car as the other unopened door. If you switch, you win it.
So by always switching you can double your odds.
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RIP Monty Hall! I hope you get a good door, curtain, big box on the stage, little box in front of you, etc. May there be no zonks! And remember, always switch doors when given the opportunity.
This happens often, one spouse dies soon after the other. Real love is very strong.
