Question 1200714
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Answer: <font color=red size=4>5.27</font>


Work Shown:
E[X] = n*p
E[X] = 17*0.31
E[X] = <font color=red>5.27</font>


Further Reading:
<a href = "https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat500/lesson/3/3.2/3.2.2">https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat500/lesson/3/3.2/3.2.2</a>
and
<a href = "https://stats.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Statistics/Book%3A_Introductory_Statistics_(Shafer_and_Zhang)/04%3A_Discrete_Random_Variables/4.03%3A_The_Binomial_Distribution">https://stats.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Statistics/Book%3A_Introductory_Statistics_(Shafer_and_Zhang)/04%3A_Discrete_Random_Variables/4.03%3A_The_Binomial_Distribution</a>
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