Sample of a mixture of recent purchases

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In 2008 and 2009, Systemax bought two failing electronics stores, Circuit City and CompUSA. They have kept both the names active and customers can purchase products from either website. If they take a random sample of a mixture of recent purchases from the two websites, the distribution of the amounts purchased will be bimodal.

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