Your answer is:

This is because there are 40 boxes in total. The chance of a white box being handed out is 10/40. If a white box is handed out as a prize, there are going to be 39 boxes left, but only 9 of those 39 boxes would be white.
Ideally, tree diagrams should be used to solve such problems.
I think u should divide 8 and 10 then u will get your answer hope that helps
Answer:
9.5
Step-by-step explanation:
There is no changeover in the first throw. The probability of each changeover is 1/2 and it doesnt depend on the other changeovers. The only thing that modifies each experiment is the result of the previous flip, but regardless of weather it was tails or heads, the probability will always be 1/2.
Since the coin is flipped 20 times and the first time there is no changeover, there are a total of 19 experiments. All of them independent and with probability 1/2. Therefore, the total amount of changeovers for 20 flips is a random variable with distribution Binomial B(19,0.5), the expected value of a Binomial B(n,p) is n*p. In this case, the expected value of changeovers for n=20 is 19*0.5 = 9.5.