A company is in the business of finding addresses of long-lost friends. The company claims to have a 80% success rate. Suppose that you have the names of six friends for whom you have no addresses and decide to use the company to track them. (a) Make a histogram showing the probability of r = 0 to 6 friends for whom an address will be found.         (b) Find the mean and standard deviation of this probability distribution. (Round your answer to two decimal places.) μ =  friends σ =  friends What is the expected number of friends for whom addresses will be found? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

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A company is in the business of finding addresses of long-lost friends. The company claims to have a 80% success rate. Suppose that you have the names of six friends for whom you have no addresses and decide to use the company to track them.

(a) Make a histogram showing the probability of r = 0 to 6 friends for whom an address will be found.
   
   

(b) Find the mean and standard deviation of this probability distribution. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
μ =  friends
σ =  friends

What is the expected number of friends for whom addresses will be found? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
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