Expected flips for two heads (not in a row)
A fair coin is flipped until two heads in total have appeared - they do not need to be consecutive. What is the expected number of flips?
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- Progress is never lost: the wait splits into two separate waits for a single head.
- Each wait for a head with has mean 2.
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