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Pickup Line Ted is not particularly creative. He uses the pickup line "If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put $U$ and I together." The random variable $x$ is the number of women Ted approaches before encountering one who reacts positively.
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Ted is using a pickup line and we are interested in the number of women he approaches before he gets a positive reaction. This is represented by the random variable $x$. Show more…
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