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4.4 Exercise 3

Avg difficulty 2.5

This is a geometric problem because you may have a number of failures before you have the one success you desire. Also, the probability of a success stays the same each time you ask a student if he or she lives within five miles of you. There is no definite number of trials (number of times you ask a student).

a. Let X = the number of ________ you must ask ________ one says yes.

OpenStax Statistics, 4.4 Geometric Distribution (Optional), exercise 3

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