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Problem

Imagine we have a cup filled with some unknown ratio of orange and purple marbles. We select marbles one at a time with replacement and count how many orange and purple marbles we see to estimate this ratio.
Will one extra selection always increase the accuracy of our estimate?
Choose 1 answer: