Problem 95 of 333MediumStatisticsP095

Expected gap between order statistics

$X_1, \ldots, X_n \sim \text{Uniform}(0, 1)$ . What is the expected gap between adjacent order statistics, $E[X_{(k+1)} - X_{(k)}]$ ?
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