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A Geneticist Developed a New Type of Pest-Resistant Walnuts

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A geneticist developed a new type of pest-resistant walnuts. These walnuts produce 75% of pest-resistant walnut trees and 25% of susceptible (not resistant) trees when two resistant trees are crossed. If a grower crosses two such trees, the outcome is random and a probability model is given by outcomes:


A) resistant with probability 0.5 and susceptible with probability 0.5.
B) resistant with probability 0.75 and susceptible with probability 0.75.
C) resistant with probability 0.25 and susceptible with probability 0.25.
D) resistant with probability 0.75 and susceptible with probability 0.25.

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