A bag contains 3 white chips and 3 red chips. you repeatedly draw a chip at...

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A bag contains 3 white chips and 3 red chips. you repeatedlydraw a chip at random from the bag. if it's white, you set itaside; if it's red, you put it back in the bag. after removing all3 white chips, you stop. what is the expected number of times youwill draw from the bag?

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we have to solve the following recursive relations Let hk be the expected number of steps until your reach the absorbing state 4 when you are in state k for k1234 So we have that    See Answer
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