Compute E(X).

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A chemical supply company currently has in stock 100 lb of a certain chemical, which it sells to customers in 4-lb batches. Let X = the number of batches ordered by a randomly chosen customer, and suppose that X has the following pmf.

x 1 2 3 4
p(x)       0.3     0.5     0.1     0.1  

Compute E(X).

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