A Survey Was Conducted by the Public Housing Authority in a Certain

question 60

Multiple Choice

A survey was conducted by the Public Housing Authority in a certain community among 1,000 families to determine the distribution of families by size. The results follow. Find the probability distribution of the random variable X, where X denotes the number of persons in a randomly chosen family. ​

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