11. A coin is tossed n times (n > 4). What is the expected number of exactly...
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11. A coin is tossed n times (n > 4). What is the expected number of exactly three consecutive heads? Hint: Let E1 be the event that the first three outcomes are heads and the fourth outcome is tails. For 2 ≤ i ≤ n − 3, let Ei be the event that the outcome (i − 1) is tails, the outcomes i, (i + 1), and (i + 2) are heads, and the outcome (i + 3) is tails. Let En−2 be the event that the outcome (n − 3) is tails, and the last three outcomes are heads. Let Xi = B 1 if Ei occurs 0 otherwise.
Then calculate the expected value of an appropriate sum of Xi’s.
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Fundamentals Of Probability With Stochastic Processes
ISBN: 9780131453401
3rd Edition
Authors: Saeed Ghahramani
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