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Name: Hour: Date:

Lesson 6.1: Day 2: How much do you get paid?

Suppose you got a new job and each day your boss (Mrs. Gallas) draws a slip of paper
from a bag to determine your wage for the day. Let the random variable X = daily wage ($
per hour).

1. What is your wage for the day? Add your data to the table on the board
and complete the table below.

1 5 7 10 15 25
X

Probability

2. Calculate and interpret the expected value of X.

Value Distance (Distance Weighted


2
from mean from mean) (Distance
3. Recall from chapter 1 that standard from the
2
deviation tells us the typical distance mean)
from the mean. Complete the table to 1
calculate the standard deviation for the
probability distribution. 5

7
4. Interpret the standard deviation.
10

15

25
5. Mrs. Gallas decides she would rather
assign wages so that employees could Total =
get any amount from $10 to $20 and all
are equally likely. Draw a graph to SD =
represent this probability distribution.

6. What is the probability that an employee makes between $12 and $12.50?
Name: Hour: Date:

Lesson 6.1 Day 2– Probability and Continuous Random Variables


Important ideas:

Check Your Understanding


The heights of young women can be modeled by a Normal distribution with mean
µ = 64 inches and standard deviation σ = 2.7 inches. Suppose we choose a young
woman at random and let Y = her height (in inches).

1. What type of variable is Y, discrete or continuous? Explain.

2. Interpret the standard deviation.

3. Find 𝑃 𝑌 ≤ 63 . Interpret this value.

4. Find 𝑃(68 ≤ 𝑌 ≤ 70). Interpret this value.

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