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An unbaised coin is thrown 5 times. Let X be a random variable and k be the value of assigned to X for k=3,4,5 times Head occurs consecutively and otherwise the value of X is assigned -1. What is value of expection.

A

`(1)/(8)`

B

`-(1)/(8)`

C

`(3)/(8)`

D

`-(3)/(8)`

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