John Ragsdale sells new cars for Pelican Ford. John usually sells the largest number of cars on Saturday. He has developed the following probability distribution for the number of cars he expects to sell on a particular Saturday. No. of Cars Sold,                    Probability      X                                        P(x)      0                                          0.1                                                           1                                         0.2                  2                                         0.3                                                           3                                         0.3                  4                                         0.1                  What type of distribution is this? On a typical Saturday, how many cars does John expect to sell? What is the variance of the distribution?

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John Ragsdale sells new cars for Pelican Ford. John usually sells the largest number of cars on Saturday. He has developed the following probability distribution for the number of cars he expects to sell on a particular Saturday.

No. of Cars Sold,                    Probability

     X                                        P(x)

     0                                          0.1                                         

                 1                                         0.2

                 2                                         0.3                                         

                 3                                         0.3

                 4                                         0.1                 

  1. What type of distribution is this?
  2. On a typical Saturday, how many cars does John expect to sell?
  3. What is the variance of the distribution?
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