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The CIA has specialists who analyze the frequencies of letters of the alphabet in an attempt...

  1. The CIA has specialists who analyze the frequencies of letters of the alphabet in an attempt to decipher intercepted messages that are sent as ciphered text. In standard English text, the letter r is used at a rate of 6%. In an intercepted ciphered message sent to Mercer, a page of 2600 characters is found to have the letter r occurring 200 times. Is this unusual?

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