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Q19Section A (Section A)19 of 60

Waiting time for head followed by tail

Suppose that a fair coin is tossed repeatedly and independently. Let XX denote the number of tosses required to obtain for the first time a tail that is immediately preceded by a head. Then E(X)E(X) and P(X>4)P(X > 4), respectively, are

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