Tag: Coupons

50 Challenging Problems in Probability [Part 14]: Collecting Coupons

The probability of getting a distinct number from the next box is now 4/5. No. of additional box to get the second number = 1/(4/5) = 5/4. (One can show that the expected value for the number of independent trials to get the first success is 1/p.) The probability of getting a distinct numb...