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Showing posts with label mathematical expectation. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Mathematical Expectation

Question 4.53

Suppose that a grocery store purchases 5 cartons of skim milk at the wholesale price of $1.20 per carton and retails the milk at $1.65 per carton After the expiration date, the unsold milk is removed from the shelf and the grocer receives a credit from the distributor equal to 3/4 of the wholesale price. If the probability distribution of the random variable X, the number of cartons that are sold from this lot is:


x 1 2 3 4 5
f(x) 1/15 2/15 3/15 4/15 5/15

Find the Expected Profit.