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document.write( "Suppose that how a voter choses to vote (Democrat, Independent, or Republican) is a stochastic process determined by how she voted in the previous election and that the process is described by the following transition matrix.<BR>\n" );
document.write( " 	D	 	I	 	R	<BR>\n" );
document.write( "D	0.45	 	0.15	 	0.4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "I	0.4	 	0.35	 	0.25<BR>\n" );
document.write( "R	0.55	 	0.1	 	0.35<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Further, suppose that the voters are evenly split among the three parties in the first election. How will the voters be distributed in the second election? (give 4 decimal places) </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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