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Compute the Variance and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Random xx

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Compute the Variance and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Random Variable
-The random variable x represents the number of computers that families have along with the corresponding probabilities. Find the mean and standard deviation for the random variable xx .
xP(x) 00.4910.0520.3230.0740.07\begin{array}{c|c}\mathrm{x} & \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{x}) \\\hline 0 & 0.49 \\1 & 0.05 \\2 & 0.32 \\3 & 0.07 \\4 & 0.07\end{array}


A) mean: 1.18; standard deviation: 1.301.30
B) mean: 1.39; standard deviation: 0.640.64
C) mean: 1.391.39 ; standard deviation: 0.800.80
D) mean: 1.181.18 ; standard deviation: 0.640.64

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