A prize is randomly placed in one of ten boxes numbered


A prize is randomly placed in one of ten boxes, numbered from 1 to 10. You search for the prize by asking yes-no questions. Find the expected number of questions until you are sure about the location of the prize, under each of the following strategies.

(a) An enumeration strategy: you ask questions of the form "is it in box k?" .

(b) A bisection strategy: you eliminate as close to half of the remaining boxes as possible by asking questions of the form "is it in a box numbered less than or equal to k?" .

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