Three hundred little plastic yellow ducks are dumped in a pond; one of them contains a prize

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Three hundred little plastic yellow ducks are dumped in a pond; one of them contains a prize stamped on the bottom. Leonardo examines each duck until he discovers the prize. He discards each duck without a prize after he checks it, so that he never needs to check a duck more than one time. How many ducks does he expect to check until he discovers the prize?
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Introduction to Probability

ISBN: 978-0716771098

1st edition

Authors: Mark Daniel Ward, Ellen Gundlach

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