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Let X denote the number of hours you study during a randomly selected school day The probability that X can take the values x. has the following form, where k is some unknown constant. `P(X=x)={0. 1 ,""""if""""x=0k x ,""""if""x=1""""or""""2k(5-x)

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0.35

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0.3

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0.15

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0.2

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