The number of electrical outages in a city varies from day to day. Assume that the number of electrical outages (x) in the city has the following probability distribution. x f(x) 0 0.80 1 0.15 2 0.04 3 0.01 The mean and the standard deviation for the number of electrical outages (respectively) are

a. 2.6 and 5.77
b. 0.26 and 0.577
c. 3 and 0.01
d. 0 and 0.8


B

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