SOLUTION: 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. Find the mean an

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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.

Find the mean and standard deviation of this random variable. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source):
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Hi number of tickets purchased by an individual is a uniformly distributed random variable ranging from 3 to 8. "uniform distribution" means all possible outcomes in the range 3,4,5,6,7,8 have equal probability μ = (3+8)/2 = 11/2 0r 5.5 Entering the range of numbers into an online standard deviation calculator: https://www.hackmath.net/en/calculator/standard-deviation... one example σ = 1.71 (rounded to 2 decimal places)