00:01
So we know that the probability of successfully logging on to the remote terminal at any given time is 0 .7.
00:08
So the probability then that the number of tries it takes to log on equals some particular value, which i'll just say is equal to x, would be equal to 0 .3 to the power of x times 0 .7.
00:29
So that would mean that we fail x times, or actually, i need to correct myself here.
00:36
It depends on if we're saying, i'll type this out here.
00:42
It took seven tries.
00:48
Mean seven fails then success or six fails than success.
00:58
I'm going with the second interpretation here, six fails then success.
01:02
But that is something that i have seen variation on for these sorts of problems.
01:08
But that being said, we can then figure out the first four terms in the density table pretty easily.
01:16
So with the interpretation that i'm using, it's not meaningful to talk about something taking zero tries.
01:22
You would have to try and then succeed based on that interpretation.
01:26
But here we have our x and then the probability for each x value.
01:31
Then for the closed form expression for f of x, oh, that actually is what i already wrote out up above...