Individual Learning Activity No.

1. Consider the experiment of tossing a coin twice.

a. List the experimental outcomes.
HH, HT, TH, TT.
b. Define a random variable that represents the number of heads occurring on the
two tosses.
Let x = the number of heads occurring on the two tosses.
c. Show what value the random variable would assume for each of the experimental
outcomes.
The random variable (x) can assume one of the three values: 2, 1 and 0.

Outcom x
e
HH 2
HT 1
TH 1
TT 0

d. Is this random variable discrete or continuous?

It is a discrete random variable because it can assume a limit range of values (3)
and it’s countable.

2. Consider the experiment of a worker assembling a product.

a. Define a random variable that represents the time in minutes required to assemble
the product.
Let y = minutes required to assemble the product.
b. What values may the random variable assume?
The random variable (y) can assume any countable value from 0.
y = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…
c. Is the random variable discrete or continuous?
It is continuous because the variable receives the numbers in minute yet it is an
infinite variable, there is no upper limit.