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An unbiased coin is tossed repeatedly until the outcome of two successive tosses is the same. Assuming that the trials are independent, the expected number of tosses is$3...
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Consider an undirected random graph of eight vertices. The probability that there is an edge between a pair of vertices is $\dfrac{1}{2}.$ What is the expected number of ...
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Suppose you break a stick of unit length at a point chosen uniformly at random. Then the expected length of the shorter stick is ________ .
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X is uniformly distributed random variable that takes values between 0 and 1.The value of E(X^3) will be
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The expected number of times a 6 appears when a fair die is rolled 10 times is equal to?
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If a random variable $X$ has a Poisson distribution with mean $5$, then the expectation $E\left [ \left ( x+2 \right )^{2} \right ]$ equals ___.
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A fair die is tossed two times. the probability that 2nd toss results in value greater than first toss is ?
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