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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=0,k x if x=1 , 2k(5-x) if x=3 or 4, 0 otherwise

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