Question

Days with identical weather
On a given day, the weather can be sunny (probability = 0,4), cloudy (probability = 0,4) or rainy (probability=02) Weather is independent
across days. Blocks of weather are groups of consecutive days in which the weather is the same. Across a ten-day period, what's the expected
number of blocks of identical weather?
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Pick one of the choices
6.12
676
74
5.76
None of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Sunny (probability = 0.4), (Given)

Cloudy (probability = 0.4) (Given)

Rainy (probability = 0.2) (Given)

Thus,

On the first day we will have at least one weather block having probability = 1. On the next day, the probability of the weather will change and of another block will be -

= 4/5 × 3/5 + 1/5 × 4/5

= 16/25

This phenomena will occur only n−1 days and therefore, the expected number of weather blocks for n days wil be -

= E(Xn) = 1+ (n−1) 16/25

Substituting the value of n = 10 we will get  169/ 25 or around 6.76 weather groups.