You have a fair nine-sided die, where the faces are numbered from 1 to 9. You roll the die repeatedly, and write the number consisting of all your rolls so far, until you get a multiple of 3. For example, you could roll an 8, then a 2, then a 5. You would stop at this point, because 825 is divisible by 3, but 8 and 82 are not.
Find the expected number of times that you roll the die.
I am fairly new to the concept of expected value, and I don't really know how to go about solving this. It would be great if someone could help.
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