A panel of meteorological and civil engineers studying emergency evacuation plans for Star Coast in the event of a hurricane has estimated that it would take between 13 and 18 hours to evacuate people leaving in low-lying land with the following probabilities: Probability 0.04 Time to Evacuate nearest hour 13 14 0.25 15 0.40 16 0.17 17 0.10 18 0.04 Obtain the standard deviation of the given probability distribution.

A panel of meteorological and civil engineers studying emergency evacuation plans for Star Coast in the event of a hurricane has estimated that it would take between 13 and 18 hours to evacuate people leaving in low-lying land with the following probabilities: Probability 0.04 Time to Evacuate nearest hour 13 14 0.25 15 0.40 16 0.17 17 0.10 18 0.04 Obtain the standard deviation of the given probability distribution.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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