Golden randomly barks only 40% of the time as strangers pass by the house. Blacky randomly barks 30% of the time. Assume this is a Bernoulli Random process and that strangers pass the house one-by-one. Suppose Golden and Blacky are both on guard, what is the average number of strangers to hear the 1st bark

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Golden randomly barks only 40% of the time as strangers pass by the house. Blacky randomly barks 30% of the time. Assume this is a Bernoulli Random process and that strangers pass the house one-by-one. Suppose Golden and Blacky are both on guard, what is the average number of strangers to hear the 1st bark? 

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