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Let ? be a branching process, with ?0=2 and family size distribution ? ∼ Bin(2,3/4). What...

Let ? be a branching process, with ?0=2 and family size distribution ? ∼ Bin(2,3/4). What is the probability that the process will eventually die out?

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