On the basis of past experience, the manager of The Comic Shop has compiled the following table, which gives the probabilities that a customer who enters the The Comic Shop Store will buy 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 comics. How many comics can a customer entering this store be expected to buy? (Enter your answer to two decimal places.)  ________comics  Comics 0 1 2 3 4 Probability   0.40   0.37   0.15   0.05   0.03

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On the basis of past experience, the manager of The Comic Shop has compiled the following table, which gives the probabilities that a customer who enters the The Comic Shop Store will buy 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 comics. How many comics can a customer entering this store be expected to buy? (Enter your answer to two decimal places.)
 ________comics 
Comics 0 1 2 3 4
Probability     0.40     0.37     0.15     0.05     0.03  
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