Choose an American Household at Random and Ask How Many

question 8

Multiple Choice

Choose an American household at random and ask how many computers that household owns. Here are the probabilities as of 2009:

What is the expected number of computers owned by a randomly chosen household?

• A) 1.412
• B) 1.307
• C) 2.214
• D) 2
• E) 2.5

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