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Through the career services office, you have arranged preliminary interviews at four companies for summer jobs

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Through the career services office, you have arranged preliminary interviews at four companies for summer jobs. Each company will either ask you to come to their site for a follow-up interview or not. Let X be the random variable equal to the total number of follow-up interviews that you might have.

a) List all the possible values of X.

b) Is the random variable discrete or continuous?

c) Do you think a uniform distribution might be appropriate as a model for this random variable? Explain briefly.

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a. Possible values of the random variable are: 0,1,2,3,4 (All exhaustive possible likely outcomes)

b. The variable is discrete because there are distinct outcomes.

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A uniform distribution would not be appropriate as a model for the random variable X because the outcomes are not equally likely.

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Through the career services office, you have arranged preliminary interviews at four companies for summer jobs

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