Let be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables having Binomial(3, 1/4) distribution. For j=1,2,…, define if , and 0 otherwise. If converges almost surely to a constant c as , then the value of c equals
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Root 5 splits the binomial support between 2 and 3 not at a rounder number
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