Variance of coins-per-die heads
You roll a fair six-sided die to get a number , then flip fair coins and count the heads . What is the variance of the number of heads ? Give a decimal to four places.
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- Condition on the die : law of total variance.
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Answer
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1.6042 (± 0.01)
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