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AP Stats
Ch. 7

Discrete Probability Distributions Worksheet


1. You flip four coins. Let X, the random variable, be the number of heads on all four
coins.

a. List the sample space for the experiment.


Answer: S= {HHHH, HHHT, HHTH, HHTT, HTHH, HTHT, HTTH, HTTT, THHH,
THHT, THTH, THTT, TTHH, TTHT, TTTH, TTTT}

b. What are the possible values for x?


Answer: Possible values of X= {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}

c. Is the random variable, x, continuous or discrete?


Answer: Discrete

d. Construct a probability distribution for this experiment.


Answer:
X 0 1 2 3 4
P(X) 1/16 4/16 6/16 4/16 1/16

2. Determine if the following are probability distributions (if no, state why).

a. X 3 6 9 12 15 Answer: No, the total of P(X) is less than 1.


P(X) 4/10 2/10 1/10 1/10 1/10

b. X 1 2 3 4 5 Answer: Yes, the total of P(X) is equal to 1.


P(X) 3/15 1/15 1/15 4/15 6/15

c. X 20 30 40 50 Answer: No, the total of P(X) is over 1.


P(X) 1.1 0.2 0.9 0.3

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3. Construct a probability distribution for the data and draw a histogram for the
following:

a. The probabilities that a patient will have 0,1 ,2, or 3 medical tests performed on
entering a hospital are 6/15, 5/15, 3/15, and 1/15 respectively.
Answer:
X 0 1 2 3
P(X) 6/15 5/15 3/15 1/15

b. A die is loaded in such a way that the probabilities of getting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are
1/2, 1/6, 1/12, 1/12, 1/12, and 1/12 respectively.
Answer:
X 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(X) 1/2 1/6 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12

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c. A box contains 3 $1 bills, 2 $5 bills, 1 $10 bill, and 1 $20 bill.


Answer:
X 1 5 10 20
P(X) 3/7 2/7 1/7 1/7

d. A family has three children. Let X represent the number of boys.


Answer:
X 0 1 2 3
P(X) 1/8 3/8 3/8 1/8
S= {BBB, BBG, BGB, BGG, GBB, GBG, GGB, GGG}

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Mean, Variance, and Expectation

1. From past experience, a company has found that in carton of transistors, 92%
contain no defective transistors, 3% contain one defective transistor, 3% contain
two defective transistors, and 2% contain three defective transistors.

a. Construct a probability distribution below.


Answer:
X P(X) X.P(X) X- (X-) (X-). P(X)
0 0.92 0 -0.15 0.02 0.02
1 0.03 0.03 0.85 0.72 0.02
2 0.03 0.06 1.85 3.42 0.10
3 0.02 0.06 2.85 8.12 0.16
= 0.15 ∑= 0.3
 = 0.0225

b. Calculate the mean, variance, and standard deviation for the defective
transistors.
Answer:
 = 0.15
 = 0.28
 = 0.53

2. The number of suits sold per day at Suit World is shown in the probability
distribution below.

X 19 20 21 22 23
P(X) 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1

a. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the distribution.


Answer:
X P(X) X.P(X) X- (X-) (X-). P(X)
19 0.2 3.8 -1.8 3.24 0.65
20 0.2 4 -0.8 0.64 0.13
21 0.3 6.3 0.2 0.04 0.01
22 0.2 4.4 1.2 1.44 0.29
23 0.1 2.3 2.2 4.84 0.48
= 20.8 ∑= 1.56
 = 432.64

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 = 20.8
 = -431.08
 = 20.76

b. If the manager of Suit World wants to make sure that he has enough suits for
the next five days, how many should he buy to stock the store?
Answer: He should buy 115 suits.

3. The Bank of America VP feels that each savings account customer has, on average,
three credit cards. The following distribution represents the number of credit cards
people own.

X 0 1 2 3 4
P(X) 0.18 0.44 0.27 0.08 0.03

a. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation.


Answer:
X P(X) X.P(X) X- (X-) (X-). P(X)
0 0.18 0 -1.34 1.80 0.32
1 0.44 0.44 -0.34 0.12 0.05
2 0.27 0.54 0.66 0.44 0.12
3 0.08 0.24 1.66 2.76 0.22
4 0.03 0.12 2.66 7.08 0.21
= 1.34 ∑= 0.92
= 1.80

 = 1.34
 = -0.88
 = 0.94

b. Is the VP correct?
Answer: No

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4. Flower World determines the probabilities for the number of flower arrangements
they deliver each day.

X 6 7 8 9 10
P(X) 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1

a. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation.


Answer:
X P(X) X.P(X) X- (X-) (X-). P(X)
6 0.2 1.2 -1.8 3.24 0.65
7 0.2 1.4 -0.8 0.64 0.13
8 0.3 2.4 0.2 0.04 0.01
9 0.2 1.8 1.2 1.44 0.29
10 0.1 1 2.2 4.84 0.48
= 7.8 ∑= 1.56
 = 60.84

 = 7.8
 = -59.28
 = 7.70

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