Homework Help: Statistics

Posted by Alia on Tuesday, December 25, 2012 at 7:30pm.

Please can some one help me with the following:
A fisherman finds that approximately 17% of all his fish go bad by the time he takes them to the market. The fisherman catches 1,000 fish.
A. How many will go bad by the time he takes them to the market?
B. Find the standard deviation.

Thanks!

Statistics - MathGuru, Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 5:24pm
A. 1000 * .17 = ?

B. Sd = √(1000 * .17 * .83) = ?

I'll let you finish the calculations.

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