Standard deviation of the sum of two cards labelled 0 to 4
Question
There are two identical decks, each consisting of five cards marked . One card is drawn at random from each deck and the two values are added. What is the standard deviation of the total?
Short answer
. Each card is uniform on with mean and variance . The draws are independent, so the total has variance and standard deviation .
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- Random Variables and Probability Mass Functions
- Covariance and Correlation
- Series and the Geometric Series: Partial Sums and Convergence
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