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Q48Section C (Section C)48 of 60

Expectation in a two-stage coin tossing

Let XX be the number of heads obtained in a sequence of 1010 independent tosses of a fair coin. The fair coin is tossed again XX number of times independently, and let YY be the number of heads obtained in these XX number of tosses. Then E(X+2Y)E(X+2Y) equals __________

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