Jill and Pete come to the bookstore and each of them can buy one English-Chinese dictionary with the probabilities of 0.7 and 0.4, respectively. Let X be the number of dictionaries bought by Jill and Pete together.  Find the mean and the standard deviation of X.

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Jill and Pete come to the bookstore and each of them can buy one English-Chinese
dictionary with the probabilities of 0.7 and 0.4, respectively. Let X be the number of
dictionaries bought by Jill and Pete together.  Find the mean and the standard deviation of X.  

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