GATE DA 2025 Q41: Floor of an exponential random variable is geometric
- Probability and Statistics
- 2 marks
- MCQ
- −2/3 if wrong
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For , the floor function is denoted by and defined as follows
where is an integer. Let , where is an exponentially distributed random variable with mean , where denotes natural logarithm. For any positive integer , one can write the probability of the event as follows
The value of is
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Answer: A (official GATE 2025 final answer key)
Concept used: Discretising an exponential distribution gives a geometric distribution.
First step: The rate is . Write .
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