Polya’s urn model supposes that an urn initially contains r red and b blue balls.


At each stage a ball is randomly selected from the urn and is then returned along


with m other balls of the same color. Let Xk be the number of red balls drawn in


the first k selections.


(a) Find E[X1].


(b) Find E[X2].


(c) Find E[X3].


(d) Conjecture the value of E[Xk], and then verify your conjecture by a conditioning


argument