Consider selecting a household at random in the rural area of a country. Define the random variable x to be
x = number of individuals living in the selected household
Based on information in an article, the probability distribution of x is as given below.
x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
p(x)
0.140 0.175 0.220 0.260 0.155 0.023 0.017 0.005 0.004 0.001
Calculate the mean value of the random variable x.
μx =