You play a game of chance that you can either win or lose (there are no other possibilities) until you lose. Your probability of losing is p = 0.66. What is the probability that it a. takes 2 games until you lose.  b. takes 5 games until you lose.  c. Find the mean

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You play a game of chance that you can either win or lose (there are no other possibilities) until you lose. Your probability of losing is p = 0.66. What is the probability that it

a. takes 2 games until you lose. 
b. takes 5 games until you lose. 
c. Find the mean 
c. Find the standard deviation. 

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a) Given that the probability of losing is 0.66. So the probability of winning is = 1-0.66= 0.34

If it takes 2 games to lose then it means I lose the first 2 games and win the third game.

the probability of that is= (0.34)2×0.66=0.076296

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