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4.5 Expectation

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<Three Machines Failing
4.5.1Expectation: Video
4.5.2Uneven Dice
4.5.3Expected Number Of Heads: Video
4.5.4Expected Number of Heads
4.5.5Total Expectation: Video
4.5.6Another Dice and Coin Game
4.5.7Mean Time to Failure: Video
4.5.8Three Machines Failing
4.5.9Linearity of Expectation: Video
4.5.10Fair and Biased Coins
4.5.11Binomial Board Breaking
4.5.12Great Expectations
4.5.13Expectation of a Uniform Distribution
>Fair and Biased Coins

Linearity Of Expectation

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