A basketball player can make a certain shot 80% of the time? If the player has 5 shots: a) Make a table of all possible outcomes and their probabilities. b) Draw a probability histogram. c) Comment on the shape.

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1. A basketball player can make a certain shot 80% of the time? If the player has 5 shots:
a) Make a table of all possible outcomes and their probabilities.
b) Draw a probability histogram.
c) Comment on the shape.

 

2. A 140-unit apartment building has a vacancy factor of 8%.
a) Compute the mean number of vacancies in the apartment building.
b) Compute the standard deviation for the number of vacancies in the apartment building. 

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