Question 19.13

19.13 The demands of college. Select a first-year college student at random and ask how difficult it was for him or her to adjust to the academic demands of college. Probabilities for the outcomes are

Difficulty: Very Somewhat
difficult difficult
Probability: 0.1 0.3
Difficulty: Somewhat Very
easy easy
Probability: 0.4 ?
  1. (a) What must be the probability that a randomly chosen first-year student says that it was very easy to to adjust to the academic demands of college.?

  2. (b) To simulate the responses of randomly chosen first-year students, how would you assign digits to represent the four possible outcomes listed?