The expected number of heads seen in 12 flips is 8 heads seen
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D=2x+2
X=7
Plug in the value for Max's age.
D=2(7)+2
D=14+2
D=16
Max is 7
Dee is 16
Let's start from what we know.
Note that:
(sign of last term will be + when n is even and - when n is odd).
Sum is finite so we can split it into two sums, first
with only positive trems (squares of even numbers) and second
with negative (squares of odd numbers). So:
And now the proof.
1) n is even.
In this case, both
and
have
terms. For example if n=8 then:
Generally, there will be:
Now, calculate our sum:
So in this case we prove, that:
2) n is odd.
Here,
has more terms than
. For example if n=7 then:
So there is
terms in
,
terms in
and:
Now, we can calculate our sum:
We consider all possible n so we prove that: