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Garden. A company selling vegetable seeds in packets of 20 estimates that the mean number of seeds that will actually grow is 18 , with a standard deviation of $1.2$ seeds. You buy 5 different seed packets. a) How many bad seeds do you expect to get? b) What's the standard deviation? c) What assumptions did you make about the seeds? Do you think that assumption is warranted? Explain.

          Garden. A company selling vegetable seeds in packets of 20 estimates that the mean number of seeds that will actually grow is 18 , with a standard deviation of $1.2$ seeds. You buy 5 different seed packets.
a) How many bad seeds do you expect to get?
b) What's the standard deviation?
c) What assumptions did you make about the seeds? Do you think that assumption is warranted? Explain.

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Since you buy 5 different seed packets, the total expected number of bad seeds is 2 * 5 = 10. So, the expected number of bad seeds is $\boxed{10}$. b) The standard deviation of the number of seeds that will grow per packet is 1.2. Since the number of bad seeds Show more…

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Garden. A company selling vegetable seeds in packets of 20 estimates that the mean number of seeds that will actually grow is 18 , with a standard deviation of $1.2$ seeds. You buy 5 different seed packets. a) How many bad seeds do you expect to get? b) What's the standard deviation? c) What assumptions did you make about the seeds? Do you think that assumption is warranted? Explain.

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