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100 pieces of fruits and vegetables marinate in a pot of pickles. Their flavors vary between mild, sweet, bitter, sour, and spicy. In this particular pot 10 pieces are mild, 15 pieces are bitter, 25 pieces are sweet, 35 pieces are sour, and 15 pieces are spicy. Given this medley, what is the expected value E[X], where X is the discrete random variable for event "flavor" with values {mild, bitter, sweet, sour, spicy).

100 pieces of fruits and vegetables marinate in a pot of pickles. Their flavors vary between mild, sweet, bitter, sour, and spicy. In this particular pot 10 pieces are mild, 15 pieces are bitter, 25 pieces are sweet, 35 pieces are sour, and 15 pieces are spicy. Given this medley, what is the expected value E[X], where X is the discrete random variable for event "flavor" with values {mild, bitter, sweet, sour, spicy).

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100 pieces of fruits and vegetables marinate in a pot of pickles. Their flavors vary between mild, sweet, bitter, sour, and spicy. In this particular pot 10 pieces are mild, 15 pieces are bitter, 25 pieces are sweet, 35 pieces are sour, and 15 pieces are spicy. Given this medley, what is the expected value E[X], where X is the discrete random variable for event "flavor" with values {mild, bitter, sweet, sour, spicy). Assign numeric values to the flavors like this: mild (1), bitter (2), sweet (3), sour (4), spicy (5) Compute E[X] by following the steps in lecture Module 4.
Transcribed Image Text:100 pieces of fruits and vegetables marinate in a pot of pickles. Their flavors vary between mild, sweet, bitter, sour, and spicy. In this particular pot 10 pieces are mild, 15 pieces are bitter, 25 pieces are sweet, 35 pieces are sour, and 15 pieces are spicy. Given this medley, what is the expected value E[X], where X is the discrete random variable for event "flavor" with values {mild, bitter, sweet, sour, spicy). Assign numeric values to the flavors like this: mild (1), bitter (2), sweet (3), sour (4), spicy (5) Compute E[X] by following the steps in lecture Module 4.
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100 pieces of fruits and vegetables marinated in a pot pickles.

Flavors vary between mild, sweet, bitter, sour and spicy.

In the pot, 10 pieces are mild, 15 pieces are bitter, 25 pieces are sweet, 35 pieces are sour and 15 pieces are spicy.

The numerical values are:

mild( 1)

bitter( 2)

sweet(3)

sour( 4)

 spicy( 5)


xFrequency
110
215
325
435
515

Total=100


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