142.Heads Times Tails
★★★expected valueJane Street
A fair coin is flipped 10 times. Let H be the number of heads and T the number of tails. What is the expected value of the product H times T?
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T is not a second unknown — it is determined by H. Rewrite the product in terms of H alone, then you need the second moment.
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