students were assigned a quiz that contains 7 independent multiple-choice problems. Each problem was worth 1 point and has 4 choices, where only one of them is correct. A pirate, who does not understand probability and statistics, disguises himself as a clever student and tried to pass one of the quizzes. Unlike our students, he is not able to solve the problems and, thus, decides to randomly choose an answer for each problem. Let X be a random variable representing the score of the pirate on the FIRST problem of the quiz. What distribution does X follow?

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students were assigned a quiz that contains 7 independent multiple-choice problems. Each problem was worth 1 point and has 4 choices, where only one of them is correct. A pirate, who does not understand probability and statistics, disguises himself as a clever student and tried to pass one of the quizzes. Unlike our students, he is not able to solve the problems and, thus, decides to randomly choose an answer for each problem.

Let X be a random variable representing the score of the pirate on the FIRST problem of the quiz. What distribution does X follow?

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