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Suppose that there are 27 matches originally on the table, andyou are challenged by your dinner partner to play this game. Eachplayer must pick up either 1, 2, 3, or 4 matches, with the playerwho picks up the last match pays for dinner. What is your optimalstrategy? (Describe your decision rule as concisely as youcan.)

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The person pickining the last matchstic looses and these makes the obvious explaination that the one looses takes the last 1 matchstick becuase if there are 2 matchsticks left then the opponent will take 1 match stick only to make the    See Answer
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