document.write( "Question 1196790: The number of tickets purchased by an individual for Beckham College’s holiday music festival is a uniformly distributed random variable ranging from 3 to 8.
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document.write( "number of tickets purchased by an individual \r\n" );
document.write( "is a uniformly distributed random variable ranging from 3 to 8.\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"uniform distribution\" means all possible outcomes in the range 3,4,5,6,7,8\r\n" );
document.write( " have equal probability\r\n" );
document.write( "μ = (3+8)/2 = 11/2  0r 5.5  \r\n" );
document.write( "Entering the range of numbers into an online standard deviation calculator:\r\n" );
document.write( "https://www.hackmath.net/en/calculator/standard-deviation...  one example \r\n" );
document.write( "σ  = 1.71 (rounded to 2 decimal places) \r\n" );
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