The guests of a party arrive one by one. If X is the number of people who arrived when a birthday coincidence occurred, that is, the last person who arrived has the same birthday as one of the people who were already at the party. (a) What are the possible values of X? (b) What is your PMF?
The guests of a party arrive one by one. If X is the number of people who arrived when a birthday coincidence occurred, that is, the last person who arrived has the same birthday as one of the people who were already at the party. (a) What are the possible values of X? (b) What is your PMF?
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The guests of a party arrive one by one. If X is the number of people who arrived when a birthday coincidence occurred, that is, the last person who arrived has the same birthday as one of the people who were already at the party.
(a) What are the possible values of X?
(b) What is your PMF?
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