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by DoctorZeus 4661 days ago
Sure, these are variables, so they correspond to different possibilities. X can be anything, and given X, the amount in the other envelope is one of two different possible values - 1/2X OR 2X.

So there are far more than three possible values, but only two actual values.

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Exactly, that's why your model is broken.