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Activity – Surgery Patients

The probabilities that a surgeon operates on 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 patients in any day are
0.15, 0.10, 0.20, and 0.30, respectively. Find the average number of patients that a
surgeon operates in a day.

Number of Patients Probability

X•P(X)
X P(X)
3 0.15
4 0.10
5 0.20
6 0.25
7 0.30

Activity – Number of Heads

When three coins are tossed, the probability distribution for the random variable X
representing the number of heads that occur is given below. Compute the variance and
standard deviation of the probability distribution.