4.1. Which will take fewer flips, on average: successively flipping a quarter until the pattern HHT appears,

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4.1. Which will take fewer flips, on average: successively flipping a quarter until the pattern HHT appears, that is, until you observe two successive heads followed by a tails; or successively flipping a quarter until the pattern HTH appears? Can you explain why these are different?

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An Introduction To Stochastic Modeling

ISBN: 9780126848878

3rd Edition

Authors: Samuel Karlin, Howard M. Taylor

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