mars, inc. claims that 20% of its m&m plain candies are orange. a sample of 100 such candies is randomly selected. find the mean and standard deviation for the number of orange candies in such groups of 100.
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The probability p of an orangecandy is 0.2. The sample size = 100. The mean is given by: [tex]n\times p=100\times0.2=20[/tex] The standard deviation is given by: [tex] \sqrt{npq} = \sqrt{100\times0.2\times(1-0.2)} =4[/tex] The answers are: Mean = 20. Standard deviation = 4.