Alex decides to sell his old guitar, and sequentially receives bids from potential buyers. The minimum price that he will accept to sell his guitar for is £500. Let {Xn, n ≥ 0} denote the sequence of independent and identically distributed bids that Alex receives, and assume that each Xn has the following probability density function fX(x) = (1/400)e-x/400 for x ≥ 0. Let N denote the number of bids that Alex obtains before selling his guitar i.e., Alex sells his laptop to the Nth bid. Showing your full working, (a) find E[N]. (b) find E[XN].

Alex decides to sell his old guitar, and sequentially receives bids from potential buyers. The minimum price that he will accept to sell his guitar for is £500. Let {Xn, n ≥ 0} denote the sequence of independent and identically distributed bids that Alex receives, and assume that each Xn has the following probability density function fX(x) = (1/400)e-x/400 for x ≥ 0. Let N denote the number of bids that Alex obtains before selling his guitar i.e., Alex sells his laptop to the Nth bid. Showing your full working, (a) find E[N]. (b) find E[XN].

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Author:Sheldon Ross

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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