The number of tickets purchased by an individual for Beckham College's holiday music festival is a uniformly distributed random variable ranging from 7 to 12. Find the mean and standard deviation of this random variable. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Mean Standard deviation

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The number of tickets purchased by an individual for Beckham College's holiday music festival is a uniformly distributed random
variable ranging from 7 to 12.
Find the mean and standard deviation of this random variable. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Mean
Standard deviation
Transcribed Image Text:The number of tickets purchased by an individual for Beckham College's holiday music festival is a uniformly distributed random variable ranging from 7 to 12. Find the mean and standard deviation of this random variable. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Mean Standard deviation
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According to the definition, "A random variable with an interval (a,b) is said to be following uniform distribution if the probability mass function is given by:                        1a-b, if a<x<bf(x;a,b) =                            0, otherwise                        

 

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