Three Quotes That Sum Wrong
A bookmaker posts decimal odds on a match with exactly three outcomes -- a stake of at decimal odds returns in total if the outcome hits, and nothing otherwise.
(a) Is there a risk-free profit here? Show how you know in one line. (b) With to deploy, how do you split it, and what do you make? (c) A second book posts odds whose implied probabilities sum to . What does that number mean, and why is the situation in (a) so rare in practice?
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