Personal Narrative: Monty Hall Three-Door Puzzle

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As a freshman in high school, I was introduced to one of the many bizarre problems in discrete mathematics. When some of my senior friends discussed the question on the bus, my curiosity heightened. I soon heard about the Monty Hall Three-Door Puzzle, a problem in which a person is asked to select one of three doors to open. There is a large prize behind one of the doors, and once the person selects a door, one of the other two doors is opened revealing a losing door. The person is then asked whether or not he or she would want to switch the door originally picked. My friends asked me this question, and I immediately decided to keep my choice. The response I received had been laughter, confirming that my answer had not been the best choice.