Each day, John performs the following experiment. He flips a fair coin repeatedly until he gets a 'T' and countsthe number of coin flips needed.(a) Approximate the probability that in a (non-leap) year there are at least 3 days when he needed strictly morethan 8 coin flips.(b) Approximate the probability that in a year there are strictly more than 86 days when he needed exactly 2 coinflips.

Question a.To calculate the required probability, we can use the geometric distribution to find the…

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