A Company Selling Vegetable Seeds in Packets of 40 Estimates

Multiple Choice

A company selling vegetable seeds in packets of 40 estimates that the mean number of seeds that will actually grow is 35.7 with a standard deviation of 1.9 seeds.If a customer buys 5 different seed packets,what are the expected value and standard deviation of the number of bad seeds? Assume that packets are independent of each other.

A) μ = 79.83,σ = 9.5
B) μ = 178.5,σ = 9.5
C) μ = 178.5,σ = 47.5
D) μ = 178.5,σ = 4.25
E) μ = 79.83,σ = 4.25