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Let N be the number of flips of a coin up to an including the first flip of heads. Develope a significance test for N at the alpha=0.1 to test the hypothesis H that the coin is fair.

Can someone please help me with this statistics problem? I have no clue how to start it. Thank you :smile:
 
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