Module 1:Concepts of Random walks, Markov Chains, Markov Processes
  Lecture 3:Markov Chains
 

Assignment 1.2

(a) Suppose  are independent with the following probabilities, i.e.,  and , and.With , set ,  and . If , then show that

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(b) Now if we consider the bivariate process  as a random walk on the positive two dimension lattice, then what is the probability that this random walk leaves the rectangle at the top?