A thief steals stereo systems from the parked cars. Every morning he starts searching parked cars, until he gets a car with stereo system. Then he steals the stereo system and calls it a day. The probability that a parked car has a stereo system is 'p' and it is treated as success, the probability distribution of failures before getting a stereo "system for 100 days as follows. Fit a geometric distribution for the following data. No. of failures (x) | 0 No. of days (f) 1 3 4 5 6. 120 48 20 7 1 1.

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A thief steals stereo systems from the parked cars. Every
morning he starts searching parked cars, until he gets a
car with stereo system. Then he steals the stereo system
and calls it a day. The probability that a parked car has a
stereo system is 'p' and it is treated as success, the
probability distribution of failures before getting a stereo
system for 100 days as follows. Fit a geometric
distribution for the following data.
No. of failures (x) 0
No. of days (f)
1 2
120 48 20 7 3
3 4 5 6
1
1
Transcribed Image Text:A thief steals stereo systems from the parked cars. Every morning he starts searching parked cars, until he gets a car with stereo system. Then he steals the stereo system and calls it a day. The probability that a parked car has a stereo system is 'p' and it is treated as success, the probability distribution of failures before getting a stereo system for 100 days as follows. Fit a geometric distribution for the following data. No. of failures (x) 0 No. of days (f) 1 2 120 48 20 7 3 3 4 5 6 1 1
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