421.Ten Up or Seven Down
★★★random walksCh. 6 — Random Variables and Expectation444+ Problems in Probability
Find the expected number of fair coin flips needed to either have 10 more heads than tails, or 7 more tails than heads.
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Fair random walk exiting the interval : the expected exit time is the product of the two distances.
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