In the US, 37.5% of US adults have graduated from college. Suppose we take a random sample of 12 US adults. a) What is the probability that exactly 5 of the 12 adults graduated from college? b) How many of the 12 adults do we expect to be college graduates?  c) What is the standard deviation for this random variable?

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In the US, 37.5% of US adults have graduated from college. Suppose we take a
random sample of 12 US adults.
a) What is the probability that exactly 5 of the 12 adults graduated from college?

b) How many of the 12 adults do we expect to be college graduates? 

c) What is the standard deviation for this random variable?

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