Flip a coin until a head appears or until the fourth trial. Let $X$ be the number of coin tosses. What is $E(X)$?
H TH TTH TTTH TTTT
s= 1 1 1 1 1
f= 0 1 2 3 4
let $f =$ number of failures
$X = f+s$
what i did is $E(f+s) = E(x) = \frac {s(1-p)}p$ where $p$ is the probability of getting heads.
It seemed to be wrong, is the last term TTTT the reason?