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Practice By Tag: Random Variables

Question: 2022 Winter Final - 19
1 . A group of $n\ge 3$ friends stand around in a circle and each friend tosses a coin. If the result of a friend's coin toss is the different from the result of the coin tossed by their left neighbour and different from result of the coin tossed by their right neighbour, then the friend shouts Huzzah! Let $X$ be the number of friends who shout Huzzah!. What is $ E(X)$?
(a)
$n/2$
(b)
$n/4$
(c)
$n/3$
(d)
$n/8$
(e)
None of the above