Suppose that the components of Sniffy’s naïve behavioral repertoire occur a total of 4,800 times during a 30-minute period of time. Of those components, sniffing occurs 1,200 times. The relative frequency of sniffing is
a. 0.2.
b. 0.25.
c. 0.8.
d. 4.0.
b. 0.25.
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