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Suppose that a random variable $X$ can take $5$ values $\{1,2,3,4,5\}$ with probabilities that depend upon $n \geq 0$ and are given by

\[P(X=k)=\frac{e^{k n}}{e^{n}+e^{2 n}+e^{3 n}+e^{4 n}+e^{5 n}}\]

for $k=1,2,3,4,5$. What can one say about the expectation $E[X]$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$?

  1. It increases to infinity as $n \rightarrow \infty$
  2. It equals $3$ for all values of $n \geq 0$
  3. It converges to $1$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$
  4. It converges to $5$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$
  5. It converges to $0$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$
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