Use the following transition matrix to answer the following

Use the following transition matrix to answer the following questions. What is the probability that if you start in state D that you will end up in the absorbing state B? (Round your answer to three decimal places.) What is the expected number of iterations of the Markov process if you start in state D? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) If you start in state D, what is the expected number of times that you will be in state C until entering an absorbing state? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

Solution

here we can do row wise transformation.

here R2-->R4*R2

then R2-->0.17*0=0

==>0.24*1=0.24

==>0.3*0=0

==>0.29*0=0

there are only one rotation is done