The Number of Electrical Outages in a City Varies from Day

question 106

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. 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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