Exercise 4.24

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One way to think about the problem is that the event X < r counts all sequences of n independent Bernoulli trials, where the number of failures is larger than n r. If we extend the number of trials indefinitely, this implies that more than n r failures occured before the r-th success, because otherwise, we’d have X r. The probability of this event is P(Y > n r).

Implication in the reverse direction can be shown analogously.

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