Customers at a gas station pay with a credit card (A), debit card (B), or cash (C). Assume that successive customers make independent choices with P(A) = 0.3, P(B) = 0.1, and P(C) = 0.6. (a) Among the next 100 customers, what are the mean and variance of the number who pay with a debit card? mean       variance       (b) Answer part (a) for the number among the 100 who don't pay with cash. mean       variance

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Customers at a gas station pay with a credit card (A), debit card (B), or cash (C). Assume that successive customers make independent choices with P(A) = 0.3, P(B) = 0.1, and P(C) = 0.6.

(a) Among the next 100 customers, what are the mean and variance of the number who pay with a debit card?

mean      
variance      

(b) Answer part (a) for the number among the 100 who don't pay with cash.
mean      
variance      
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