A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134753119
Author: Sheldon Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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A fair coin is flipped three times. Let S be the sample space of the eight possible
outcomes, and let X be the random variable that assigns to an outcome the number
of heads in this outcome. What is the expected value of X?.

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