I came upon the following question recently,
"You have a box which has G green and B blue coins. Pick a random coin, G gives a profit of +1 and blue a loss of -1. If you play optimally what is the expected profit."
I was thinking of using a brute force algorithm where I consider all possibilities of combinations of green and blue coins but I'm sure there must be a better solution for this (range of B and G was from 0 to 5000). Also what does playing optimally mean? Does it mean that if i pick all blue coins then I would continue playing till all green coins are also picked? If so then this means I shouldn't consider all possibilities of green and blue coins?