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2001 Paper 3 Q12
D: 1700.0 B: 1518.2

A bag contains \(b\) black balls and \(w\) white balls. Balls are drawn at random from the bag and when a white ball is drawn it is put aside.

  1. If the black balls drawn are also put aside, find an expression for the expected number of black balls that have been drawn when the last white ball is removed.
  2. If instead the black balls drawn are put back into the bag, prove that the expected number of times a black ball has been drawn when the first white ball is removed is \(b/w\,\). Hence write down, in the form of a sum, an expression for the expected number of times a black ball has been drawn when the last white ball is removed.