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Practice By Tag: Linearity of Expectations

Question: 2014 Winter Final - 23
1 . We roll a pair of fair dice repeatedly and independently, and stop as soon as the sum of the numbers for the pair is 7. Define the random variable $X$ to be the number of times we roll the dice. (In one roll, we roll a pair of dice.) What is the expected value of $X$?
(a)
7
(b)
6
(c)
4
(d)
5