Cellular Phone Sales The probability that a cellular phone company kiosk sells X number of new phone contracts per day is shown below. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation for this probability distribution.

X

4

5

6

8

10

P (X)

0.4

0.3

0.1

0.15

0.05

What is the probability that they will sell 6 or more contracts three days in a row?

1 answer

The probability that they will sell 6 or more contracts three days in a row is 0.001 (0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1).

Mean: 6.2

Variance: 4.68

Standard Deviation: 2.16