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The First Repeat (Posted on 2016-07-18)

A bag has 5 tokens numbered 1 to 5. Tokens are drawn with replacement until a token is repeated. What is the probability that the repeated token is the first token drawn?

What is the formula for N tokens?

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Subject	Author	Date
re: solution	Jer	2016-07-18 21:13:16
re(2): answers	Ady TZIDON	2016-07-18 15:24:44
re: answers	Charlie	2016-07-18 15:13:55
solution	Charlie	2016-07-18 15:04:40
answers	Ady TZIDON	2016-07-18 15:03:26

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