Seeing a one when the roll count is geometric
Question
Toss a fair coin until the first head appears; suppose that takes tosses. Then roll a fair six-sided die times. What is the probability that at least one of these rolls shows a ?
Short answer
. Compute the complement: no in rolls has probability , and with probability , so . Hence .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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