420.Counting Runs
★★★expected valueCh. 6 — Random Variables and Expectation444+ Problems in Probability
You toss a fair coin 100 times. On average, how many runs (maximal blocks of consecutive identical outcomes) do you observe?
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A new run starts at flip 1 and at every flip that differs from its predecessor — linearity.
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