Consider a ferry that can carry both buses and cars across

Chapter 5, Problem 4.99

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Consider a ferry that can carry both buses and cars across a waterway. Each trip costs the owner approximately $10. The fee for cars is $3 and the fee for buses is $8. Let X and Y denote the number of buses and cars, respectively, carried on a given trip. The joint distribution of X and Y is given by x y 012 0 0.01 0.01 0.03 1 0.03 0.08 0.07 2 0.03 0.06 0.06 3 0.07 0.07 0.13 4 0.12 0.04 0.03 5 0.08 0.06 0.02 Compute the expected prot for the ferry trip.

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