Question: Outworld Devourer's Mana Pool. There is a hero called Outworld Devourer in your favorite game. Initially, his mana pool is at 100%. Every hit he

Outworld Devourer's Mana Pool. There is a hero called Outworld Devourer in your

favorite game. Initially, his mana pool is at 100%. Every hit he makes on his enemy is very powerful but

drains 1 of his mana pool. However, after every hit, with probability p, he will automatically restore the n

mana he lost with the hit. He will keep hitting until there's no mana left in his mana pool.

  1. a)Use a Markov chain to represent Outworld Devourer's mana pool, define the states and write down the transition probabilities, either in a graph or as a matrix. Which state(s) are recurrent and which
  2. state(s) are transient?
  3. b)Denote the number of total hits on his enemy as a random variable, X. Find the PMF of X.
  4. c)Find the expected value of X.

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