A marketing firm is considering making up to three new hires. Given its specific needs, the management feels that there is a 60% chance of hiring at least two candidates. There is only a 9% chance that it will not make any hires and a 15% chance that it will make all three hires. a. What is the probability that the firm will make at least one hire? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) 0.16 b. Find the expected value and the standard deviation of the number of hires. (Round intermediate calculations to at least 4 decimal places. Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)           Expected value 0.63 Standard deviation 0.80 the answers above for the Expected value and Standard deviation are incorrct so im not sure what im doing wrong

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A marketing firm is considering making up to three new hires. Given its specific needs, the management feels that there is a 60% chance of hiring at least two candidates. There is only a 9% chance that it will not make any hires and a 15% chance that it will make all three hires.


a. What is the probability that the firm will make at least one hire? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

0.16



b. Find the expected value and the standard deviation of the number of hires. (Round intermediate calculations to at least 4 decimal places. Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

 

 
 
   
Expected value 0.63
Standard deviation 0.80

the answers above for the Expected value and Standard deviation are incorrct so im not sure what im doing wrong

 

 
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