A travelling salesman makes a sales on 65% of his calls on regular customers.he makes four calls each day. A. Construct the probability distribution of X, the number of sales made each day.  B. Find the probability that, on a randomly selected day, the salesman will make a sale.  C. Assuming that the salesman makes 20 sales calls per week, find the mean and standard deviation of the number of sales made in per week.

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A travelling salesman makes a sales on 65% of his calls on regular customers.he makes four calls each day.

A. Construct the probability distribution of X, the number of sales made each day. 

B. Find the probability that, on a randomly selected day, the salesman will make a sale. 

C. Assuming that the salesman makes 20 sales calls per week, find the mean and standard deviation of the number of sales made in per week. 

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