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13.04.2021 • 
Mathematics

At a casino, people line up to pay $20 each to be a contestant in the follow- ing game: The contestant flips a fair coin repeatedly. If she flips heads 20 times in 20 mil a row, she walks away with lion dollars; otherwise she walks away with R 0 dollars (a) Find the PMF of R, the reward earned by the contestant.
(b) The casino counts "losing contestants who fail to win the 20 million dollar prize. Let L equal the number of los- ing contestants before the first winning contestant. What is the PMF of L?
(c) Why does the casino offer this game?

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