Probability of finishing a course of treatment

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You need to take a medicine 1 x per day for 5 days. What is the probability of completing the treatment expressed in terms of the probability of taking each dose given that the probability of taking a dose (other than the first dose) is conditional on having taken the prior dose.

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Hint: you have five tries in a row, all of which must succeed, with each having the same probability.