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A roulette wheel has $38$ slots: $18$ red, $18$  red, $2$ green. The ball ends at one of these at random. You are a player who plays a large number of games and makes an even bet of $1$ dollar on red in every game. After $n$ games, what is the probability that you are ahead? Answer this for $n=100$ and $n= 1000$.

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