For \(x\in\mathbb{R}\), the floor function is denoted by \(f(x)=\lfloor…

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For x∈Rx\in\mathbb{R}, the floor function is denoted by f(x)=⌊x⌋f(x)=\lfloor x\rfloor and defined as follows ⌊x⌋=k, k≤x<k+1\lfloor x\rfloor=k,\ k\leq x<k+1, where k is an integer. Let Y=⌊X⌋Y=\lfloor X\rfloor, where X is an exponentially distributed random variable with mean 1ln⁡10\frac{1}{\ln10}, where ln denotes natural logarithm. For any positive integer ℓ\ell, one can write the probability of the event Y=ℓY=\ell as follows P(Y=ℓ)=qℓ(1−q)P(Y=\ell)=q^\ell(1-q). The value of q is

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