Intact triples after removing six blocks
Question
Fifteen blocks form 5 distinct sets of 3 blocks each. Six of the 15 blocks are removed uniformly at random. What is the expected number of sets that still have all three blocks?
Short answer
. A particular set survives if all 6 removed blocks come from the other 12, probability . By linearity, the expected number of surviving sets is .
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- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Conditional Expectation and Variance Revisited
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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