Provide an Appropriate Response

question 68

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-A table of random numbers is used to generate 100 random integers between 0 and 9. Do you think that the distribution of the numbers will be roughly uniform? Why or why not? In a second experiment, a table of random numbers is used to generate two random integers between 0 and 9 and the sum of the two numbers is recorded. This procedure is repeated 100 times. Do you think that the distribution of the sums will be roughly uniform? Why or why not?

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