Boy–girl neighbors in a line
boys and girls line up in a uniformly random order. What is the expected number of adjacent positions occupied by a boy and a girl (in either order)?
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- There are adjacent pairs; use linearity of expectation.
- A pair is mixed (BG or GB) with probability .
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