Question

Jane counted the pages in each book on her English class's required reading list. Number of pages Number of books 467 611 3 622 2 629 2 704 6 712 2 X is the number of pages that a randomly chosen book had. What is the expected value of X? Write your answer as a decimal.

Answer 1

We are asked to determine the expected value of a given data set. To do that we need to find the product of each value of X and multiply by the associated probability and then add all the products together. To determine the probability we need to divide