Construct the probability distribution for X

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Question: A fair coin is tossed repeatedly until either it lands heads or a total of five tosses have been made, whichever comes first. Let X denote the number of tosses made.

a. Construct the probability distribution for X.

b. Compute the mean μ of X.

c. Compute the standard deviation σ of X.

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