Sum of geometric sequence to show the probabilities

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Here is a probability of .08 that a vaccine will cause a certain side effect. suppose that a number of patients are inoculated with the vaccine. we are interested in the number of patients vaccinated until the first side effect is observed. Use the formula for the sum of a geometric sequence to show that the probabilities in the probability distribution table add to 1.

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