Consider biased Coin flips with head probability p. Let T_n be the the number of flips requiredto obtain a run of n consecutive heads. Write down a recursion for \E[T_n], the expectation ofT_n, and compute \E[T_n].

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Consider biased Coin flips with head probability p. Let T_n be the the number of flips required to obtain a run of n consecutive heads. Write down a recursion for \E[T_n], the expectation of T_n, and compute \E[T_n].