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In the 'Two Slits' experiment when only one electron is fired, how does it produce the pattern that it does?

If there was only one electron that was exhibiting wave-like properties, then shouldn't there be an chance that it could end up anywhere on the 'back wall'? How could one single wave produce a pattern as if there was a cancellation at certain points caused by the interaction of two waves?
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The electron is a travelling wave packet, and when the slit width is on the order of the deBroglie wavelength of the electron, it will diffract just like a wave. Since the electron's position wavefunction is a probability distribution, the pattern takes a lot of iterations to become apparent.