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Let be a geometric random variable with . Derive formulae for and in terms of
A jar contains balls. Initially, all of the balls are red. Every minute, a ball is drawn at random from the jar, and then replaced with a green ball. Let be the number of minutes until the jar contains only green balls. Show that the expected value of is . What is the variance of
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