424.Opposite Ends
★★★expected valueCh. 6 — Random Variables and Expectation444+ Problems in Probability
A fair coin is flipped 5 times. Find the expected number of heads given that the first and last flips landed on opposite sides.
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The first and last flips contribute exactly one head between them; the middle flips are unaffected by the conditioning.
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