McDonald’s is doing their Monopoly game again.  They advertise that 1 in every 4 game pieces is a winner.  If you and your date get a total of 8 pieces find the following probabilities: All 8 are losers At least 2 are winners. At most 2 are winners. Compute the mean and standard deviation of this distribution.

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McDonald’s is doing their Monopoly game again.  They advertise that 1 in every 4 game pieces is a winner.  If you and your date get a total of 8 pieces find the following probabilities:

  1. All 8 are losers
  2. At least 2 are winners.
  3. At most 2 are winners.
  4. Compute the mean and standard deviation of this distribution.

 

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