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2.  (6 points total) This problem is similar to Problem 2 in HW6. The weather for each day can be classified as being either rainy (state 0), cloudy (state 1), or sunny (state 2). If it is currently raining, then the probabilities for the weather condition to be rainy, cloudy, and sunny next day will be 4/8, 3/8, and 1/8, respectively. If the current day is cloudy, then the probabilities for the weather condition to be rainy, cloudy, and sunny next day will be 3/8, 2/8, and 3/8, respectively. If the current day is sunny, then the probabilities for the weather condition to be rainy, cloudy, and sunny next day will be 1/8, 3/8, and 4/8, respectively.        (a)  (3 points) Draw the three-state probability diagram.        (b)  (3 points) What are the respective percentages of rainy, cloudy, and sunny days in the long run?

According to Kahn thoughts, baseball is different than basketball, hockey and track because__________.

According to Graybill (2004), sport is an important homosocial instutition.

According to Dougherty (2004), the sentimental trope is best described as?

True or false? James Dickey captained submarines for the U.S. Navy. 

According to Kielland-Lund (1993), Updike’s Rabbit, Run features the wealthy class in America.

According to Kahn, Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson were friends.

According to Kielland-Lund (1993), trans-Atlantic perspectives on Americans were formed in the 1950s through which of the following?

Largely because of the neighborhood he grew up with and the people he interacted with in his boyhood, John Updike mainly focused on writing the lives of ________ in his works, including the novel “Rabbit, Run”. 

According to Dr. Flanagan’s lecture on Infinite Jest, the description of the lives of individuals dealing with drugs or alcohol addition, depression, death or suicide, and adultery in humorous way is called________.