Find the mean or expected value of probability distribution

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People visiting video rental stores often rent more than one DVD at a time. The probability distribution for DVD rentals per customer at Video To GO is given in the following table. There is a five-video limit per customer at this store, so nobody ever rents more than five DVDs.

X P(X)

0 0.03
1 0.50
2 0.24
3 0.12
4 0.07
5 0.04

a. Find the mean or expected value of this probability distribution. ________

b. Find the standard deviation of this probability distribution. ________

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