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If $25 \%$ of U.S. federal prison inmates are not U.S. citizens, find the probability that 2 randomly selected federal prison inmates will not beU.S. citizens.
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We are given that the probability of a U.S. federal prison inmate not being a U.S. citizen is 25%, or 0.25. We denote this event as $n$. Show more…
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