Contaminated gun cartridges. A weapons manufacturer uses a liquid propellant to produce gun cartridges.

During the manufacturing process, the propellant can get mixed with another liquid to produce a contaminated cartridge. A statistician hired by the company to investigate the level of contamination in the stored cartridges found that 25% of the cartridges in particular lot were contaminated. Suppose you randomly sample (without replacement) gun cartridges from this lot until you find a contaminated one. Let x be the number of cartridges sampled until a contaminated one is found. It is known that the probability distribution for x is given by the formula

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p(x)=(.25) (.75)-1, x = 1, 2, 3,... a. Find p(2). Interpret this result. b. Find p(4). Interpret this result. c. Find P(x2). Interpret this result.