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Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands,
so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
b. The number of arrivals at an emergency room between midnight and 6:00 am.
c. The duration of the next outgoing telephone call from a business office.
II. Solve
1. Find the variance and standard deviation of the following discrete random variable X with the
following probability distribution.
X 0 1 2
Probability, P(X) 1/6 1/8 2/3
2. In statistics examination, the mean grade is 78 and the standard deviation is 10. Find the following:
a. The corresponding z-score of the two students whose grade are 92 and 63 respectively.
b. The grades of two students whose z-scores are 0.5 and 1.1 respectively.