26. One of the numbers 1 through 10 is randomly chosen. You are to try to guess...

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26. One of the numbers 1 through 10 is randomly chosen. You are to try to guess the number chosen by asking questions with "yes-no" answers. Compute the expected number of questions you will need to ask in each of the two cases:

(a) Your *i*th question is to be "Is it *i*?", *i* = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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