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Children’s cereals sometimes contain small prizes. For example, not too long ago, boxes of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes contained one of three posters: Ken Griffey Jr., Nolan Ryan, or Reggie Jackson. Reggie wanted to get a Reggie Jackson poster and had to buy eight boxes until getting his poster. Reggie feels especially unlucky.
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Frederick Mosteller, Robert E. K. Rourke, and George B. Thomas, Jr. (1970), Probability with Statistical Applications,second ed., Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, pp. 176, 189,and 219.
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Scheaffer, R.L., Watkins, A., Gnanadesikan, M., Witmer, J.A. (1996). Waiting for Reggie Jackson: The Geometric Distribution. In: Activity-Based Statistics. Textbooks in mathematical sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3843-8_17
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