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2017 T6: Cheating is Bad

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January 29, 2017
2017team

Problem Statement

George is taking a ten-question true-false exam, where the answer key has been selected uniformly at random; however, he doesn't know any of the answers! Luckily, a friend has helpfully hinted that no two consecutive questions have true as the correct answer. If George takes the exam and maximizes the expected number of questions he gets correct, how many of his answers are expected to be right?