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WORKSHEET FOR MEAN AND VARIANCE OF DICSRETE RANDOM

VARIABLES

A. Directions: Read the problem carefully and answer the following question on the space provided for.

At a peryaan, you pay P2.00 to play a coin-flipping game with three fair coins. On each coin one
side has the number 0 and the other side has the number 1. You flip the three coins at one time and
you win P1.00 for every 1 that appears on top.

(a) In this game, the random variable of interest

counts the number of I's that show. What is the
sample space for the values of this random
variable?

(b) There are eight equally likely outcomes for

throwing three coins. They are 000, 001, 010,
011, 100, 101,_____, and______.

c. Complete the table.

d. Compute for the expected value, variance

and standard deviation

e. Interpret the results