JEE Main · 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 · Shift 1 · Probability

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A fair die is tossed repeatedly until a six is obtained. Let X denote the number of tosses required and let , and . Then is equal to ____.

Answer: 12

Solution

is geometric with success probability : .

(the first two rolls miss).

By the memoryless property, .

JEE Main · 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 · Shift 1 · Integer answer

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