Suppose we uniformly and randomly select a permutation from the 20! permutations of 1, 2, 3,..., 20. What is the promutations that 2 appears at an earlier position than any other even number in the selected permutation?

When a coin is tossed, the probability of getting a Head is p, 0 < p < 1. Let N be the random variable denoting the number of tosses till the first Head appears, including the toss where the Head appears. Assuming that successive tosses are indepandent, the expected value of N is

Box P has 2 red balls and 3 blue balls and box Q has 3 red balls and 1 blue ball. A ball is selected as follows: (i) select a box (ii) choose a ball from the selected box such that each ball in the box is equally likely to be chosen. The probabilities of selecting boxes P and Q are 1/3 and 2/3, respectively. Given that a ball selected in the above process is a red ball, the probability that it came from the box P is:

An unbiased coin is tossed repeatedly until the outcome of two successive tosses is the same. Assuming that the tails are independent, the expected number of tosses are