LESSON 5:

PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION

AND ITS CORRESPONDING
HISTOGRAM
PAK GANERN
Say PAK if the given place can be found in Baguio City and
GANERN if the given place can be found in Ilocos Region.
1. Paoay Church
2. Baluarte
3. Burnham Park
4. Calle Crisologo
5. Mines View Park
6. Teachers’ Camp
7. Pagudpud Beach
REVIEW
Ramon National High School is planning to have a
field trip in Baguio and in Ilocos. The places in the
given activity which are 4 places in Ilocos and 3
places in Baguio are the choices of the principal. If
three places will be selected, how many possible
values of the random variable B representing the
number of places in Baguio?
REVIEW
Guide Questions:
1. What is the number of occurrence of each values
of random variable B?
2. What is the probability of the occurrence of each
value of the random variable B?
REVIEW
B 0 1 2 3
P(B) 1 3 3 1
8 8 8 8

The probability distribution above of a discrete

random variable is sometimes called
probability mass function.
PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION
- a table, a formula, or a graph showing the
possible values of the random variable
together with their corresponding
probabilities
Example:
Two coins are tossed. Let T be the number tails
that occur.
Guide Questions:
1. What are the outcomes of the given
experiment?
T = {HH, HT, TH, TT}
Example:
Guide Questions:
2.What are the values of the given random
variable?

Outcomes Number of Tails

(Value of T)
HH 2
HT 1
TH 1
TT 0
Example:
Guide Questions:
3. How many does the given random variable T
occur?
Number of Tails Number of
(Values of T) Occurrence
(frequency)
2 1
1 2
0 1
Example:
Guide Questions:
4. What is the probability of the corresponding
event?
Number of Tails Number of Occurrence Probability
(Values of T) (frequency) P(T)
1
2 1
4
1
1 2
2
1
0 1
4
Total 4 1
Example:
Therefore the probability mass function of a
random variable T can be written as:

T 2 1 0
1 1 1
P(T)
4 2 4