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casperchen82

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The probability that Pete will catch fish when he goes fishing is .8 . Pete is going to fish 3 days next week. Define the random variable x to be the number of days Pete catches fish. The expected number of days Pete will catch fish is
 a. .6
   b. .8
   c. 2.4
   d. 3

Question 2

The symbol used for the variance of the sample is
 a. .
  b. 2.
  c. s.
  d. s2.


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raenoj

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d


casperchen82

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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