A sociologist surveyed the households in a neighboring town and recorded the number of dependent children in the household. The following probability distribution was created based on the survey. Use the probability distribution to answer the following questions x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.07 0.20 0.38 0.22 0.13 True or false. The expected number of dependent children in the household must be a whole number because it represents what we expected to get in every household

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A sociologist surveyed the households in a neighboring town and recorded the number of dependent children in the household. The following probability distribution was created based on the survey. Use the probability distribution to answer the following questions x 0 1 2 3 4 P(x) 0.07 0.20 0.38 0.22 0.13 True or false. The expected number of dependent children in the household must be a whole number because it represents what we expected to get in every household
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