Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

by Rosen, Kenneth

Published by McGraw-Hill Education

ISBN 10: 0073383090

ISBN 13: 978-0-07338-309-5

Chapter 7 - Section 7.4 - Expected Value and Variance - Exercises - Page 492: 17

Answer

2302

Work Step by Step

This distribution is simply a geometric distribution with $p = 1/2302$. Hence expected the number is $1/p = 2302$.

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