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Practice Problem: normalizing the probability mass function of a discrete random variable
A random variable X has the following probability mass function:
$ p_X (k) = \frac{C}{3^{|k|}}, \text{ for } k \in {\mathbb Z}, $
where C is a constant. Find the value of the constant C.
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