We have n chips numbered 1, 2,, n. Tom, who likes fancy experiments, selects a chip at

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We have n chips numbered 1, 2,…, n. Tom, who likes fancy experiments, selects a chip at random and if the number on that chip is i, he tosses a coin i times

(1 ≤ i ≤ n). Tom has just completed this experiment and he tells us that no heads appeared in the coin tossing. What is the probability that the number of coin tosses was k (for k = 1, 2,…, n)?

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Introduction To Probability Volume 2

ISBN: 9781118123331

1st Edition

Authors: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Markos V. Koutras, Konstadinos G. Politis

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