[christophe007]

I am a self paced new and very green Python student. I am trying to make my way through various Python problems but got stuck. I can’t seem to find anyone to turn to, but found your e-mail while I was on google for inspiration this morning…



The problems I am working though are very simple for anyone that has worked with Python but not so simple for someone that is new to this…

Here is problem that I have to solve:

Two hockey teams play eight times during the regular season. Team A wins five times and Team B wins the other three times. They meet in the playoffs in a best of seven series. Write a program that estimates the chances of Team B winning the series. A sample run of the program might look like this:

Are team B's chances better in a 1 game "series", a 3 game series, a 5 game series, or a 7 game series? What would team B's chances of winning a 51 game series be?

And here is the code that I have so far (keeping simple so I can understand the structure):

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import random
SERIES = 1000
game = 0
series = 0
 
while series < SERIES:
     teamA = random.randint (1,8)
     teamB = random.randint (1,8)
     teams = teamA + teamB
 
      if teams == 8:
         game = game + 1
      series = series + 1
 
 
print 'In %2d simulated series Team B won %2d ' % (SERIES,game)
 
print 'so I estimate there is a',(game / 10),'% chance they will win 
the series.' 

What am I doing wrong? What am I forgetting?? I hope you can help…

Chris

[Christian]

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[UnrealEd]

Can you tell us what goes wrong?

[chrishaizimsque]

here u go i fixed your script for u

import random
SERIES = 1000
game = 1
series = 1

while series < SERIES:
teamA = random.randint (1,8)
teamB = random.randint (1,8)
teams = teamA + teamB


if teams == 8:
game = game + 1
series = series + 1


print "In %2d simulated series Team B won %2d % (SERIES,game)"

print "so I estimate there is a",(game / 20),"% chance they will win"
"the series.`"