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A recent report indicated that 22 percent of the households in a certain community speak a
language other than English at home. A reporter will randomly select a household from the
community until the first houehold that speaks a language other than English at home is
selected. Let random variable Q represent the number of attempts needed until the first
household that speaks a language other than English at home is selected. The random variable
Q has a geometric distribution with p = 0.22. Which of the following is closest to the variance
of the random variable?