It was found that 40% of cmapers at a certain camp got posion ivy. If 8 students attended the camp, let X be the number of students. What is the probbaility thath the number of students having poison ive is  A) 2 B) between 1 and 3 inclusive C) the mean of the random variable X D) obtain the stadered deviation of X

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It was found that 40% of cmapers at a certain camp got posion ivy. If 8 students attended the camp, let X be the number of students. What is the probbaility thath the number of students having poison ive is 

A) 2

B) between 1 and 3 inclusive

C) the mean of the random variable X

D) obtain the stadered deviation of X 

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It was found that 40% of campers at a certain camp got poison ivy , p = 0.4

sample size, n = 8

Let X be the number of students having poison ivy

~ Bin(n=8,p=0.4)

The formula for Binomial probability :

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