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EXPECTED HOME SALES OF A REALTOR Sally Leonard, a real estate broker, is relocating in a large metropolitan area where she has received job offers from Realty Company A and Realty Company B. The number of houses she expects to sell in a year at each firm and the associated probabilities are shown in the following tables:
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The average price of a house in the locale of Company A is
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