What is the expected number of items

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Question: A list of n items is arranged in random order; to find a requested item, they are searched sequentially until the desired item is found. What is the expected number of items that must be searched through, assuming that each item is equally likely to be the one requested? (Questions of this nature arise in the design of computer algorithms.)

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