A large bag contains pretzels with 3 different shapes: heart, square, circle . Billy plans to reach into the bag and draw out one pretzel at a time, stopping only when he has at least one pretzel of each type. Let the random variable X denote the number of pretzels that Billy will draw from the bag. You can assume that there is an infinite number of pretzels in the bag with equal proportions of each shape. Find E(X).

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A large bag contains pretzels with 3 different shapes: heart, square, circle . Billy plans to reach into the bag and draw out one pretzel at a time, stopping only when he has at least one pretzel of each type. Let the random variable X denote the number of pretzels that Billy will draw from the bag.

You can assume that there is an infinite number of pretzels in the bag with equal proportions of each shape.

Find E(X).

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Given that, the bag contains three pretzels: heart, square and circle.

He will stops drawing when he has at least one pretzel of each shape.

Let be a random variable denotes the number of Pretzels that Billy will draw.

X=3,4,5,6,7,8...

Calculate P(X=3).

P(X=3)=1×23×13               =29

Calculate P(X=4).

P(X=4)=1×13×23×13               =227

Calculate P(X=5).

P(X=5)=1×13×13×23×13               =281

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