Stranded Miner
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A miner is stranded and there are two paths he can take.
Path loops back to itself and takes him 5 days to walk it.
Path brings him to a junction immediately (0 days). The junction at the end of path has two paths: Path and Path .
Path brings him back to his original starting point and takes him 2 days to walk. Path brings him to safety and takes him 1 day to walk.
Each path has an equal probability of being chosen and once a wrong path is chosen, the miner gets disoriented and cannot remember which path he went through.
What is the expected value of the amount of days he will spend before he exits the mine?
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