Question 5: [DISCRETE MATH]
There is a song-writing contest at your local radio station. Everyone who enters this contest writes their song using Sing-GPT, an AI songwriting service, to generate their songs. Of course, since Sing-GPT is not terribly original, it only generates 100 different songs. There are 50 people entering into the contest, each with a uniformly random generated song chosen from the 100 different songs available.
Hint: For both questions below, use indicator random variables.
a) Let X be the number of different songs entered into the contest. What is E(X)?
b) If a song is entered more than once, it is ejected from the contest. What is the expected number of songs to be ejected?
The next two questions use the following definition. If X is a random variable that can take any value n where n is an integer and n >= 1, and if A is an event, then the conditional expected value E(X|A) is defined as
E(X|A) = ∑_(k=1)^(∞) k * Pr(X=k|A)