Ram and Ramesh appeared in an interview for two vacancies in the same department. The probability of Ram's selection is $$1/6$$ and that of Ramesh is $$1/8$$. What is the probability that only one of them will be selected?

Let the random variable $$X$$ represent the number of times a fair coin needs to be tossed till two consecutive heads appear for the first time. The expectation of $$X$$ is ________.

Suppose $$A$$ & $$B$$ are two independent events with probabilities $$P\left( A \right) \ne 0$$ and $$P\left( B \right) \ne 0.$$ Let $$\overrightarrow A $$ & $$\overrightarrow B $$ be their complements. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

The variance of the random variable $$X$$ with probability density function $$\,f\left( x \right) = {1 \over 2}\left| x \right|{e^{ - \left| x \right|}}\,\,$$ is ___________.