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Old January 3rd, 2009, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Bradley55 View Post
Okay, so after doing my calculations i got the expected value of 1.


questions "a" asks for the mean and standard deviation for c. Isnt the mean 1.5? just (3+2+1+0 / 4 = 1.5)?

And my notes only reminded me of this, they are incomplete , so if i did any of this right what should be my next step?
The expected value IS the mean. In other words: expected value = mean = 1

What you should do next has already been answered twice, once by nzmathman in post #2 and again by me in post #9...

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