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Find the standard deviation of the number of children the couple in Exercise 13 may have.
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The variance is calculated by taking each difference, squaring it, and then averaging the result. In this case, we have two possible outcomes: 12 children and 3 children. The probabilities of these outcomes are 0.2496 and 0.2704 respectively. The mean number of Show more…
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