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| Question 851026:  An urn contains 10 marbles, each of which shows a number. Five marbles show 1,two marbles show 2 and three show 3.
 A marble is drawn at random. If x is the number that shows find the followings:
 
 The probability distribution and the cumulative distribution of the random variable  x.
 p(1≤x≤3),p(x<3)  .
 Find the mean of the random variable X.
 Calculate the variance and standard deviation of the random variable X.
 
 Answer by stanbon(75887)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! An urn contains 10 marbles, each of which shows a number. Five marbles show 1,
 two marbles show 2
 three show 3.
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 A marble is drawn at random.
 If x is the number that shows find the following:
 The probability distribution and the cumulative distribution of the random variable x
 P(x = 1) = 1/2
 p(x = 2) = 1/5
 p(x = 3) = 3/10
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 p(1≤x≤3) = (5/10)+(2/10)+(3/10) = 1
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 p(x<3) = 1 - (5/10) + (2/10) = 7/10
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 Find the mean of the random variable X.
 Mean = 1(5/10)+2(2/10)+3(3/10) = (5 + 4 + 9)/10 = 18/10 = 1.8
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 variance = 0.7599
 std = 0.8718
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 Cheers,
 Stan H.
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