Annual Rainfall The annual rainfall in a remote Middle Eastern country is a random variable with probability density function defined by
(a) Find the mean annual rainfall.
(b) Find the standard deviation.
(c) Find the probability of a year with rainfall less than 1 standard deviation below the mean.
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