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A coin is tossed repeatedly until heads has occurred twice or tails has occurred twice, whichever...

A coin is tossed repeatedly until heads has occurred twice or tails has occurred twice, whichever comes first. Let X be the number of times the coin is tossed. Find:

a. E(X). b. Var(X).

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