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A man is looking for a football game to watch on a Sunday night. He has...

A man is looking for a football game to watch on a Sunday night. He has ten channels, and only one of them shows football, but he can’t remember which one. Assume they are all equally likely to have it, and let X be the number of channels he tries until he finds it. What is the expected number of channels he tries until he finds it?

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