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Divide the keystrokes into disjoint blocks of five, and let An​ be the event that block n is exactly HELLO. The events are independent events, and
P(An​)=26−5.
(1)
Consequently
∑n=1∞​P(An​)=∞.
(2)
Part (c) shows that infinitely many of these block events occur almost surely. Each occurrence is an occurrence of HELLO in the full typed sequence, so
P(HELLO appears infinitely often)=1​.
(3)

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