STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

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ACTIVITY NO. 5: COMPUTING PROBABILITY CORRESPONDING TO QUESTIONS:

A GIVEN RANDOM VARIABLE
NAME: __________________________________________ SCORE: _____________
TRACK/STRAND & SEC.: ___________________________
(HOW MANY SIBLINGS DO THE LEARNERS HAVE)
In your Statistics class, the teacher wants to know the number of
siblings the learners have.
1. How many students does the teacher have? ________________________________
2. What is the random variable in this activity?
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3. What are the values of the random variable? _______________________________
4. Find the sum of the probability of the random variable (W). Is the answer a
coincidence or should this be expected? Briefly explain.
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Teacher: How many of the class have 0 sibling? 5. How many learners is/are only child? ______________________________________
6. What is the probability that a randomly-selected learner is an only child?
Class: (There were 2 learners who raised their hands.)
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Teacher: How many of you has 1 sibling?
7. What is the chance that a randomly-selected learner has at most two siblings?
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Class: (There were 10 learners who raised their hands.)
... 8-10. What is the probability that a randomly-selected learner has three or more
siblings? (Your two classmates Lisa and Felix tried to answer. Below are their
This continues until 7 siblings. Suppose that we have the following solutions.)
table of frequencies. Let us use W to represent the number of Lisa Felix
sibling/s. 𝑃(𝑊 > 3) = 𝑃(𝑊 = 4 𝑜𝑟 𝑊 = 5 𝑜𝑟 𝑊 = 7) 𝑃(𝑊 ≥ 3) = 𝑃(𝑊 = 3 𝑜𝑟𝑊 = 4 𝑜𝑟 𝑊 = 5 𝑜𝑟 𝑊 = 7)
=𝑃(𝑊 = 4) + 𝑃(𝑊 = 5) +P(W=7) =𝑃(𝑊 = 3) + 𝑃(𝑊 = 4) + 𝑃(𝑊 = 5) +P(W=7)
=0.06 + 0.02 + 0.02 =0.1 + 0.06 + 0.02 + 0.02
Probability of the Random Variable (W)
W= Number of siblings Frequency =0.1 or 10% =0.2 or 20%
P(W)
0 2 2/50 = 0.04 = 4% Therefore, the probability of picking a learner Therefore, the probability of picking a learner having
having 3 or more siblings out of 50 students is 0.10 3 or more siblings out of 50 students is 0.20 or 20%
1 10 10/50= 0.2 = 20% or 10% of chance. chance.
2 28 28/50=0.56 = 56% Who do you think got the correct answer? Briefly explain your answer.
3 5 5/50=0.1 = 10% __________________________________________________________________________________________________
4 3 3/50=0.06 = 6% __________________________________________________________________________________________________
5 1 1/50=0.02 = 2% __________________________________________________
6 0
7 1 1/50=0.02 = 2% 11-15. What is the probability that a randomly-selected learner have at least 2
Total siblings? (Use the back page of this activity sheet for your solutions.)