3.90 beads are evenly placed on a circle. Each of them is, independently of the other ones, coloured white, grey or blac
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:42 pm
3.90 beads are evenly placed on a circle. Each of them is, independently of the other ones, coloured white, grey or black with the respective probabilities 1/2, 1/3, 1/6. A triple of adjacent beads is called representative if all of them have different colours. Find the expectation of the number of representative triples.