Probability limit in Markov Chains

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In the problem above, I solved all questions but the last one confuses me. I can see that state 5 can only lead to state 1, hence it is clear that the probability and the limit of the probability is equal to 1. What does have $r$ have to do here? How does it influence the limit? am I understanding the expression wrong? Thank you.