A baseball card collector buys and opens 360 packs of 1989 Fleer baseball cards. He is told that there is a 2.3% chance of anyone pack containing the coveted Billy Ripken error card. Find the mean and standard deviation of the random variable "number of Billy Ripken error cards ound", where n-360

Mean: 8.28

Standard deviation: 2.84

Step-by-step explanation:

This random variable "number of Billy Ripken error cards found" can be described by the binomial distribution, with sample size n=360 (number of packs) and probability of success p=0.023 (probabillity of a pack containing the coveted Billy Ripken error card).

Then, the mean and standard deviation are calculate as for the binomial distribution:

step-by-step explanation:

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