Problem #6: 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 2 days when he needed strictly morethan 9 coin flips.(b) Approximate the probability that in a year there are strictly more than 18 days when he needed exactly 4 coinflips.

John flips a coin until he gets a T and counts the number of coin flips needed.

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