The Number of No-Shows Each Day for Dinner Reservations at the Cottonwood

question 151

True/False

The number of no-shows each day for dinner reservations at the Cottonwood Grille is a discrete random variable with the following probability distribution: Based on this information, the expected number of no-shows is 1.65 customers.

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