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How would you vaticinate to $-w_k$ from both sides of $w_{k + 1} = \dfrac{w_k - (1 - p)w_{k - 1}}{p}$?
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This question appeared on my pop quiz last week. I got 0%. I achieved everything until the green equation, then I didn't know how to proceed. After reading this solution, I see that you must isolate $pw_{k + 1}$ and move $w_k$ to the right.
$\color{limegreen}{w_k = pw_{k + 1} + (1- p)w_{k - 1}} \iff pw_{k + 1} = w_k - (1 - p)w_{k - 1}$.
- Then you must divide the equation by p.
$w_{k + 1} = \dfrac{w_k - (1 - p)w_{k - 1}}{p}$
- Finally, you must ${\color{red}{-w_k}}$ from both sides!
$w_{k + 1} {\color{red}{-w_k}} = \dfrac{1\color{red}{-p}}{p}(w_k - w_{k - 1})$
These steps eluded me, are too tricky, and appear to come of the blue! Can you please naturalize (make natural) them? How would you progonosticate this algebra?
Tsitsiklis, Introduction to Probability (2008 2e), p 63.
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