One of the numbers 1 through 10 is randomly chosen.You are

Chapter 4, Problem 4.26

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One of the numbers 1 through 10 is randomly chosen.You are to try to guess the number chosen byasking questions with yesno answers. Computethe expected number of questions you will need toask in each of the following two cases:(a) Your ith question is to be Is it i? i =1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.(b) With each question you try to eliminate onehalfof the remaining numbers, as nearly aspossible.

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