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An equity actor auditions 100 times a year and obtains a contract for a play $8 \%$ of the time. Is her work schedule (number of plays) a discrete or random variable?
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The actor auditions 100 times a year and gets a contract 8% of the time. We need to determine if the number of plays she works on is a discrete or random variable. Show more…
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