Suppose it is believed that the probability a patient will die from a certain disease following treatment is 0.15. In a group of 50 such patients, the number who do not die would have mean and variance respectively given by (to two decimal places): Recall that the variance is the square of the standard deviation, i.e., variance = npq. Mean:  Variance:

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Suppose it is believed that the probability a patient will die from a certain disease following treatment is 0.15. In a group of 50 such patients, the number who do not die would have mean and variance respectively given by (to two decimal places):

Recall that the variance is the square of the standard deviation, i.e., variance = npq.

Mean: 
Variance: 

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