Geometric or binomial distribution?
A monkey is sitting at a simplified keyboard that only includes the keys "a", "b", and "c". The monkey presses the keys at random. Let X be the number of keys pressed until the money has passed all the different keys at least once. For example, if the monkey typed "accaacbcaaac.." then X would equal 7 whereas if the money typed "cbaccaabbcab.." then X would equal 3.
a.) What is the probability ?
b.) Prove that for an random variable Z taking values in the range {1,2,3,...}, Summation from to infinity of .
c.) What's the expected value of X?
First, is this a binomial distribution or a geometric distribution? I believe it is a binomial but my other friends says that it is geometric. As for the questions above, for a can I just do , but I don't know how I will calculate , I would know how to calculate , I don't know how to do b or c.