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Four variables have all pairwise correlations 1/2 except corr(a,d). What range can corr(a,d) take? Compute it in code.

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Random variables a, b, c, d have every pairwise correlation equal to 1/2 except corr(a,d), which is unknown. What range can corr(a,d) take? Write code to compute it.

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