You own a local company that has special equipment for moving pianos. Your company has enough equipment to handle three pianos in a day. The number of requests to move pianos is a random variable with following distribution. → x f(x) 0 0.30 1 0.38 2 0.15 3 4 0.05 5 0.03 6 0.01

You own a local company that has special equipment for moving pianos. Your company has enough equipment to handle three pianos in a day. The number of requests to move pianos is a random variable with following distribution. → x f(x) 0 0.30 1 0.38 2 0.15 3 4 0.05 5 0.03 6 0.01

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x	f(x)
0	0.30
1	0.38
2	0.15
3
4	0.05
5	0.03
6	0.01

1	The probability of three (3) requests to move pianos is _______.
a	0.06
b	0.07
c	0.08
d	0.09

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