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biggirl4568

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on: Jul 25, 2018
What important question must you answer before computing an or probability? How
  does the answer influence your computation?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

In a certain town, 40 of adults have a college degree.
 
  The accompanying table describes
  the probability distribution for the number of adults (among 4 randomly selected adults)
  who have a college degree.
  x P(x)
  0 0.1296
  1 0.3456
  2 0.3456
  3 0.1536
  4 0.0256


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bassamabas

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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Are the events disjoint or can the events occur simultaneously? If the events can occur simultaneously you must be
careful to count so that each outcome is counted only once.

Answer to Question 2

Probability distribution


biggirl4568

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Reply 2 on: Jul 25, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

bblaney

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

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