Exactly two fives before seeing both 4 and 6
Question
Kathy throws a fair six-sided die again and again, stopping once both a and a have shown up (not necessarily consecutively). What is the probability that during this whole sequence of throws she saw the face exactly twice?
Short answer
. Faces are irrelevant. Before the first or , the number of fives is with probability ; after it, waiting for the missing face, it is with probability . Hence .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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