Let X be a non-negative integer valued random variable. Observe X items and mark each of the X items independently with probability s where. What is the probability that all X items are marked?
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On the surface it looks like, but I know there is no way this can be this easy... What am I doing wrong?
Hello,
Your mistake is that you're not considering X as a random variable.
What you can compute is P(all items marked|X=x)=s^x
But if you want the probability, not the conditional one, just remember that E[X]=E[E[X|Y]] (and that a probability is an expectation).
Thus P(all items marked)=E[P(all items marked|X)]=E[s^X]
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