Roll or Bank
A game offers you two fair dice: an -sided die and a -sided die. You must first roll the and look at the result. Then you decide: bank that number as your payout, or discard it and roll the once — in which case the result is your payout, with no going back. Playing optimally, what is your decision rule, and what is the game's expected payout?
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