12. A survey conducted discovered that 63% of all Americans are overweight. Suppose that a number of randomlyselected Americans are weighed. The following table may (or may not) be useful:k 0 1 2 3 41 4 6 4 14Ck(a) Find the probability that the 4th person weighed is the first person to be overweight.(b) Find the probability that it takes less than 4 people to observe the first overweight person.(c) Find the expected value and variance of the number of Americans that would have to be weighed inorder to find the first person that was overweight.

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