How many colleges did you apply to other than the one in which are enrolled? This was just the question asked and illustrated in Applied Example 5.3, “Applying for Admission,” on page 276.

a. Using the variable x, number of additional applications for admission completed, express the information on the bar graph “Students hedge their bets” as a discrete probability distribution.

b. Explain how the distribution supports the article’s opening statement, “. . . but the process is far from over.”