Showing the two conditional distributions

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A recent study showed that, in one year, 86% of all blacks slain were slain by blacks and 78% of all whites slain were slain by whites. Let y denote race of victim and x denote race of murderer.

a) Which conditional distributions do these statistics refer to, those of y at given catagories of x, or those of x at given categories of y? Set up a table with race of murderers as rows and race of victims as columns, showing the two conditional distributions.

b) Are x and y independent or dependent? Explain.

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