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Exercise 7.1 · Q18

Q.Find the mean number of heads in three tosses of a fair coin.

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For 3 tosses of a fair coin, X∼Binomial(3,1/2)X\sim Binomial(3, 1/2), and the mean of a binomial random variable is E(X)=npE(X)=np. Here n=3n=3, p=1/2p=1/2, so E(X)=3×0.5=1.5E(X)=3\times0.5=1.5. This also follows from the p.m.f. P(X=0,1,2,3)=1/8,3/8,3/8,1/8P(X=0,1,2,3)=1/8,3/8,3/8,1/8: $E( …

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