
Understanding Basic Statistics
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Chapter 6.3, Problem 17P
Criminal Justice: ParoleUSA Today reports that about 25% of all prison parolees become repeat offenders. Alice is a social worker whose job is to counsel people on parole. Let us say success means a person does not become a repeat offender. Alice has been given a group of four parolees.
(a) Find the
(b) Make a histogram for the probability distribution of part (a).
(c) What is the expected number of parolees in Alice’s group who will not be repeat offenders? What is the standard deviation?
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