Learning Journal Unit 4

Given the table below, answer the questions the following questions:

x P(x)
1 0.15
2 0.35
3 0.40
4 0.10
1. What is the probability that P(X>2)?
2. What is the probability that P(X=4)?
3. What is the probability that P(1<X<3)?

Solution

From the probability distribution, since

P(X=1)=0.15

P(X=2)=0.35

P(X=3)=0.40

P(X=4)=0.10

1. Therefore, the probability that P(X>2) is

P(X>2) = P(X=3) + P(X=4)

= 0.40 + 0.10
P(X>2) =0.50
The probability that X is greater than 2 is 0.50.
2. P(X=4)

Looking at the table, we can see that

P(X=4) = 0.10

The probability that X is equal to 4 is 0.10

3. P(1<X<3)
P(1<X<3) means probability that one (1) is less than X and less than three (3).
So if X is less than 1 and less than 3,then Xis equal to two (2).

P(1<X<3) = P(X=2) ….(since, only x=2 lies between 1<X<3)

P(1<X<3) = 0.35
From the table,
=P(X=2) = 0.35.

The probability that X lies between 1 and 3 is 0.35.

Reference
Illowsky, B., Dean, S., Birmajer, D., Blount, B., Boyd, S., Einsohn, M., Helmreich, Kenyon, L.,
Lee, S., & Taub, J. (2022). Introductory statistics. openstax.
https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-statistics