HMMT November 2013 T2
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Gary plays the following game with a fair -sided die whose faces are labeled with the positive integers between 1 and , inclusive: if , he stops; otherwise he rolls the die, and starts over with a -sided die, where is the number his -sided die lands on. (In particular, if he gets , he will stop rolling the die.) If he starts out with a 6 -sided die, what is the expected number of rolls he makes?
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\frac{197}{60}
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