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Let a random experiment consist of rolling a pair of fair dice, each having six faces, and let the random variable X denote the sum of the dice.
(a) With reasonable assumptions, determine the pmf f(x) of X. HINT: Picture the
(b) Draw a probability histogram for f(x).
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