Solution

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For , its mean is , so the size-biased probability generating function is
Choose independent with distribution . Their shifted sum has generating function, initially for ,
with both sides continuous and zero at . Equality of probability generating functions proves
Equivalently, has possible positive summand pairs, each of probability , matching the size-biased geometric distribution probabilities.

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