Suppose I flip n independent biased coins such that the jth coin has probability j/n of beingheads, for j1,..., n. Let H, be a random variable equal to the total number of heads.(a) What is the expectation of H,?(b) What is the variance of Hn?(c) Use Markov's inequality to derive an upper bound on P(H, > 9n/10).

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