A third student keeps buying chocolate bars until he finds 5 prize vouchers. Let W be the numbers of bars before getting the 5 prize vouchers. (a) Write down the pmf of W.  (b) Calculate Pr(W = 2).

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A third student keeps buying chocolate bars until he finds 5 prize vouchers. Let W be the numbers of bars
before getting the 5 prize vouchers.
(a) Write down the pmf of W. 
(b) Calculate Pr(W = 2).

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