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

A random bit string of length n is constructed by tossing a fair coin n times and setting a bit to 0 or 1 depending on outcomes head and tail, respectively. The probability that two such randomly generated strings are not identical 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