The Number of Electrical Outages in a City Varies from Day

question 79

Multiple Choice

The number of electrical outages in a city varies from day to day. Assume that the number of electrical outages (x) in the city has the following probability distribution. x

The mean and the standard deviation for the number of electrical outages (respectively) are

• A)2.6 and 5.77
• B)0.26 and 0.577
• C)3 and 0.01
• D)0 and 0.8

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