Suppose a baseball player had 243 hits in a season. In the given probability distribution, the random variable X represents the number of hits the player obtained in a game.
| X |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| P(X) |
0.1287 |
0.4672 |
0.2709 |
0.1074 |
0.0237 |
0.0021 |
(a) Compute and interpret the mean of the random variable X.
= ____ Hits?
(b) Compute the standard deviation of the random variable X.