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Calculate the standard deviation of X for the probability distribution. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

x 0 1 2 3
P(X = x) 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.3

User Luis Ascorbe
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Answer:

The standard deviation of the probability distribution is 1.02.

Explanation:

Standard deviation of the distribution:

Square root of the sum of the difference squared between each value and the mean multiplied by its probability.

Mean:

Each value multiplied by its probability. So


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Standard deviation:


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The standard deviation of the probability distribution is 1.02.

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