Illustrating Mean and

Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
Illustrating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
As claimed by some research, every individual spent an
average time of ten hours on their mobile phone. What does
it mean? What is the average value that he or she spent in
using a mobile phone? Does it imply that everyday every
person spends ten hours of his day dealing with a gadget?
Or does it imply that an individual goes through ten hours
every day on a cell phone? How is the time spent by
different persons vary from one another? These questions
lead to another idea in probability and statistics. This is the
mean and the variance of the discrete random variable.
Let’s Roll a Die
During Town Fiesta, people used to go to Carnival that
most folks call it “Perya”. Mang Ben used to play “Beto–
beto” hoping that he would win. While he is thinking about
what possible outcomes in every roll would be, he is always
hoping that his bet is right. Let us help Mang Ben to know
the probabilities of each outcome by filling the table below.
X

P(X)
Let’s Roll a Die
During Town Fiesta, people used to go to Carnival that
most folks call it “Perya”. Mang Ben used to play “Beto–
beto” hoping that he would win. While he is thinking about
what possible outcomes in every roll would be, he is always
hoping that his bet is right. Let us help Mang Ben to know
the probabilities of each outcome by filling the table below.
X 1 2 3 4 5 6

P(X)
Let’s Roll a Die
During Town Fiesta, people used to go to Carnival that
most folks call it “Perya”. Mang Ben used to play “Beto–
beto” hoping that he would win. While he is thinking about
what possible outcomes in every roll would be, he is always
hoping that his bet is right. Let us help Mang Ben to know
the probabilities of each outcome by filling the table below.
X 1 2 3 4 5 6

P(X)
Answer these:
1.Is the probability of x lies between 0 and 1?
2. What is the sum of all probabilities of X?
3. Is there a negative probability? Is it possible to have a
negative probability?
4. How will you illustrate the average or mean of the
probabilities of discrete random variable?
5. Can you show a process where you can illustrate the
variance and the standard deviation of the probability?
What is it?
If you roll a fair die several times, what will be the
average outcome? Imagine rolling it 6000 times. You would
expect to roll about 1000 ones, 1000 twos, and so on: about
1000 occurrences of each possible outcome. What would
be the average value of the outcomes obtained?
Approximately, the mean or expected value would be;
What is it?
By similarity with information and relative
frequencies, we can characterize the mean of a discrete
random variable by utilizing probabilities from its
dispersion, as follows.

1. The mean is considered as a measure of the `central

location' of a random variable. It is the weighted average of
the values that random variable X can take, with weights
provided by the probability distribution.
What is it?
2. The Expected Value or Mean Value of a discrete
random variable x is can be computed by first multiplying
each possible x value by the probability of observing that
value and then adding the resulting quantities.
Symbolically,
What is it?
3. The Variance of a Discrete Random Variable X, denoted by is
computed by first subtracting the mean from each possible x value
to obtain the deviations, then squaring each deviation and
multiplying the result by the probability of the corresponding x
value, and then finally adding these quantities.
Calculating Mean and
Variance of a Discrete
Random Variable
Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
Mr. Umali, a Mathematics teacher, regularly gives a
formative assessment composed of 5 multiple-choice items.
After the assessment, he used to check the probability
distribution of the correct responses, and the data is
presented below. Calculate the mean, variance, and
standard deviation.
X 0 1 2 3 4 5
P(X) 0.03 0.05 0.12 0.30 0.28 0.22
Solution
X P(X)
0 0.03 0 11.6281 0.3488
1 0.05 0.05 5.8081 0.2904
2 0.12 0.24 1.9881 0.2386
3 0.30 0.90 0.1681 0.0504
4 0.28 1.12 0.3481 0.0975
5 0.22 1.10 2.5281 0.5562
Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
The number of patients seen in the
Emergency Room in any given hour is a random
variable represented by x. The probability
distribution for x is:
X 10 11 12 13 14
P(X) 0.23 0.18 0.15 0.27 0.17
Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
Willie works in an automotive tire factory. The
number X of sound but blemished tires that he
produces on a random day has the probability
distribution. Compute for the mean, variance, and
standard deviation.
X 2 3 4 5
P(X) 0.48 0.35 0.10 0.07
Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
The Land Bank of the Philippines Manager claimed
that each saving account customer has several credit cards.
The following distribution showing the number of credits
cards people own. Compute for the mean, variance, and
standard deviation.
X 0 1 2 3 4
P(X) 0.18 0.44 0.27 0.08 0.03
Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
In her Flower Shop, Vera recorded the probability
distribution for the number of flower arrangements that
she delivered each day. Compute for the mean, variance,
and standard deviation.
X 7 8 9 10 11
P(X) 0.20 0.20 0.30 0.20 0.10
Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
The following are the number of ice candy sold per
day in a retail store. Compute for the mean, variance, and
standard deviation.
X 30 32 36 40 42 45
P(X) 0.30 0.10 0.15 0.10 0.10 0.25
Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete
Random Variable
The following are the number of gadgets sold per day
in a store. Compute for the mean, variance, and standard
deviation.
X 13 19 20 21 24 27
P(X) 0.22 0.15 0.12 0.13 0.29 0.09