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Consider a coin which comes up heads with probability $p$ and tails with probability $1-p$, where $0 < p < 1.$ Suppose we keep tossing the coin until we have seen both sides of the coin. What is the expected number of times we would have seen tails? (Hint: the expected number of tosses required to see heads for the first time is $(1/p.)$

  1. $\frac{1}{p}$
  2. $1+\frac{1}{1-p}$
  3. $p+\frac{1}{p}-1$
  4. $2$
  5. None of the above
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