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IB HL Classwork 3 - 4 - Discrete Random Variables and Expected Value

This document discusses discrete random variables and expected value. It contains 11 problems involving defining probability distributions for random variables, finding probabilities and expected values. The problems cover topics like probability distributions for number of defective items purchased, sums of dice rolls, number of heads in coin tosses, customers entering a store and number of cars passing an intersection.

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IB HL Classwork 3 - 4 - Discrete Random Variables and Expected Value

This document discusses discrete random variables and expected value. It contains 11 problems involving defining probability distributions for random variables, finding probabilities and expected values. The problems cover topics like probability distributions for number of defective items purchased, sums of dice rolls, number of heads in coin tosses, customers entering a store and number of cars passing an intersection.

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Discrete Random Variables and Expected Value

Unit 3.4
IB HL2

1. Find the value of k, so that the random variable X describes a probability distribution.

x 1 2 3 4 5
P(X = x) 0.25 0.20 0.15 k 0.10

Find E(X)

2. The discrete random variable X has the following probability distribution.

x 1 2 3 4
P(X = x) k 2k 3k 4k

a. Find the value of k.


b. Find P(X = 2) and P(X > 2).
c. Find E(X)

3. A delivery of six television sets contains 2 defective sets. A customer makes random purchase of two sets from
this delivery. The random variable X denotes the number of defective sets purchased by the customer.

a. Find the probability distribution table for X.


b. Find P(X < 2)
c. Find E(X)

4. A pair of dice are rolled. Let X denote the sum showing uppermost.
a. Determine the possible values of the random variable X can have.
b. Display the probability distribution in tabular form.
c. Find P(X = 8)
5. A fair coin is tossed 3 times. If the random variable X denotes the number of heads that appear uppermost, find
P(X  2 | X  1).

6. The number of customers that enter a small corner newsagency between the hours of 8pm and 9pm can be
modeled by a random variable X having a probability distribution given by P(X = x) = k(3x +1), where x = 0, 1,
2, 3, 4.
a. Find the value k.
b. Represent the distribution in tabular form.
c. What are the chances that at least 2 people will enter the newsagency between 8pm and 9pm on any given
one given day?

7. The number of cars passing an intersection in the country during the hours 4pm and 6pm follows a probability
x
(0.1) 0.1
distribution that is modeled by the function P(X = x) = , x = 0, 1, 2, 3, … where the random variable
e
x!
X denotes the number of cars that pass this intersection between 4pm and 6pm.

a. Find P(X = 0)
b. Find P(X = 1)
c. Find the probability of observing at least three cars passing through this intersection during the hours of
4pm and 6pm.

8. The number of particles emitted during a one hour period is given by the random variable X, having a
x
(4) 4
probability distribution P(X = x) = e , x = 0, 1, 2, 3, …, find P(X > 4)
x!
9. A random variable X has the following probability distribution

x 0 1 2 3
P(X = x) 1 1 1 2
6 2 5 15

a. Find P(X < 3)


b. Find E(X)

10. A bakery has six indistinguishable donuts on display. However, two of them have been filled with strawberry
and the others with apricot. Claire, who hates strawberry, purchases two donuts at random. Let X the number
of strawberry donuts Claire buys. Find the probability distribution of the random variable X.

11. A box contains four balls numbered 1 to 4. A ball is selected at random from the box and its number is noted.
a. If the random variable X denotes the number on the ball, find the probability distribution of X.
b. After the ball is placed back into box, a second ball is randomly selected. If the random variable S denotes
the sum of the numbers shown on the balls after the second draw, find the probability distribution of S.

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