Student Solutions Manual for Devore's Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 9th
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Author: Jay L. Devore
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Student Solutions Manual for Devore's Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 9th
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