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Winston, a dog, loves to play fetch. He catches each ball mid-air independently with probability 0.2 (i.e. Bernoulli random variable with p = 0.2).
What is the PMF probability of Winston catching X=0,1,2,3,4,5 balls mid-air using the Binomial distribution.
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