Consider a baseball world series (best of 7 game series) in which team A theoretically has...

Consider a baseball world series (best of 7 game series) in which team A theoretically has a 0.55 chance of winning each game against team B. Simulate the probability that team A would win the world series against team B simulating 1,000 world series. What is the probability that team A would win? (USE R - include R output)

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Here is the code required:

set.seed(100) ## Setting seed
## Generating 7000 games independently
tournament <- runif(7000)
tournament = as.integer(tournament<=0.55)

## Transforming into matrix so that each row represents one 7-match tournament
tournament<- matrix(data=tournament, ncol=7)
## If team A wins >3 then wins tournament, calculating the proportion
wins <- apply(tournament, 1, sum)
prob_team_a <- sum(wins>3)/1000

## Prinitng
print(prob_team_a)

Output: 0.62

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