Consider the following game: Four cards marked 0, 1, 2 and 3 are shued and one card is picked randomly. The number on that card is noted, it is replaced in the small deck, but all cards with a higher number are removed. Then, the remaining cards are shued again and one card is picked randomly. Calculate the expectation and standard deviation for the sum of the numbers on the two picked cards.

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Consider the following game: Four cards marked 0, 1, 2 and 3 are shued and one card is picked randomly. The number on that card is noted, it is replaced in the small deck, but all cards with a higher number are removed. Then, the remaining cards are shued again and one card is picked randomly. Calculate the expectation and standard deviation for the sum of the numbers on the two picked cards.

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The different combinations of two cards are:

(3,3)(3,2)(3,1)(3,0)(2,2)(2,1)(2,0)(1,1)(1,0)(0,0)

The probability mass function of the experiment is given below.

X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(X) 1/10 1/10 1/10 2/10 2/10 1/10 1/10

Use the equation E(X)=xp(x) to find the expected value of X.

E(X)=0×1/10+(1×1/10)+(2×1/10)+(3×2/10)+(4×2/10)+(5×1/10)+(6×1/10)=2.8

Therefore, the expected value is 2.8.

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