GATE EE · 2017 · EE-2
Question 40: Probability and Statistics
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Question 40
EE-2MCQ2 marksNeeds review
A person decides to toss a fair coin repeatedly until he gets a head. He will make at most 3 tosses. Let the random variable
denote the number of heads. The value of
, where
denotes the variance, equalsYour answerChoose one option.
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2017EE-2
GATE EE 2017 · Paper 2
Electrical Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Section EE-2
- Question type
- Multiple choice (MCQ)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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