Thread: Probability question involving geometric distributions?

Your favourite TV station has 10 minutes of commercials per hour. What is the expected number of times you could randomly select this channel without hitting a commercial?

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Originally Posted by icy

Your favourite TV station has 10 minutes of commercials per hour. What is the expected number of times you could randomly select this channel without hitting a commercial?

Steps shown would be helpful.

p = 10/60 = 1/6. Now review your notes on this topic.