Question: (5 points) Suppose now that the compromised server may be in any of the three groups, and the probabilities that it is in group A,

(5 points) Suppose now that the compromised server may be in any of the three groups, and the probabilities that it is in group A, B, and C are pA, pB, and pC, respectively, where pA pB pC = 1. (Part (a) is a special case where pA = pB = 0, pC = 1.) Ezra does exactly the same as stated above: randomly chooses, with equal probability, a server group to examine until he finds the compromised server. The time it takes him to examine each group is the same as stated above, and he always finds the compromised server at the end of the examination if the compromised server is indeed in the chosen group. Now what is the expected number of days until he identifies the compromised server

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