Through the career services office you have arranged preliminary interviews at f

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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. List an the possible values of X. Is the random variable discrete or continuous? Do you think a uniform distribution might be appropriate as a model for this random variable? Explain briefly. The possible values of X are. (Use a comma to separate answers as needed. Type integers or simplified fractions.) The random variable X is A uniform distribution be appropriate as a model for the random variable X because the outcomes equally likely.

Explanation / Answer

(a)

Here X can take values 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. Here 0 shows that no follow up intervew, 1 shows that there is one follow up interview etc.

(b)

It is discrete random variable.

(c)

Here uniform distribution is not appropriate becuase outcomes are not equally likely.

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