William Ethanvince J.

Tiongco 11 – Jacquard
STATS AND PROBABILITY

What’s More

Discrete Continuous
1. Biologist Number of dolphins in a pod Longest dolphin
2. Accountant Number of financial Time spent for verification
documents verified
3. Economist Year Inflation rate
4. Engineer Number of project drafts made Time spent for each draft
5. Chef Number of dishes made in a set Time spent on each meal set

What I Have Learned

Discrete 1. Number of goods sold in a retail store

Continuous 2. Volume of gasoline consumed by an automatic car
Not a random variable 3. Names listed in a voting centre
Discrete 4. Outcomes when tossing a coin
Continuous 5. Temperature observed in Kelvin units
Continuous 6. Annual gross sales in a supermarket
Continuous 7. Actual number of metric tons loaded in a container van
Continuous 8. The angle of elevation projected by missile launchers
Not a random variable 9. Type of blood extracted
Not a random variable 10. Colour of hair

A. Write down the formula needed to solve the following.

1. Mean of Discrete Random Variable: μ= ∑ (xP ( x ))

2. Variance of Discrete Random Variable:
σ =( x 2 P ( x ) )−(xP ( x ) )

B. Write down the differences Variables and Random Variables.

- Variables are unknown quantity that has an undetermined magnitude. Random variables
are used to represent events in a sample space or related values as a dataset
- Variables are defined with domains as sets of real or complex numbers
- Random variables can be either real numbers or some discrete nonmathematical entities
in a set
- Random variables can be used to denote an event
- Random variables are associated with probability and functions

Assessment
 1. B
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. A
10. C
11. D
12. D
13. (6)(6)(6) = 216
14. B
15. C
Additional Activities
X is a discrete random variable, given its probability distribution below.

x P(x)

100 19/50 0.38

250 3/10 0.30
380 17/100 0.17
420 1/10 0.10
510 1/20 0.05

1. What is the probability that x = 250? 0.30

2. What is the probability that x is below 420? 0.85
3. What is the probability that x is greater than 100 but less than 420? 0.47
4. What is the probability that x is greater than or equal to 380? 0.32
5. What makes the distribution a valid discrete probability distribution? Draw the histogram for the
variable x.
Each value of the discrete random variable is between 0 and 1 thus 0 ≤ P(x) ≤ 1. The sum of the
probabilities is equal to 1 therefore ∑ P(x) = 1
 Histogram of variable X
0.4

0.35

0.3

0.25

0.2

0.15

0.1

0.05

0
100 250 380 420 510

Histogram of variable X