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Exercise 6

DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION

Activity:

Eight persons enter a supermarket. From past experience, it is known that 25% of the people entering the supermarket
make a purchase.

Let X be the number of customers who will make a purchase.

1. What are the possible values of the random variable X?

2. Construct the probability distribution of X.

X
P(X=x)

3. What is the probability that

a) at least four persons will make a purchase?

b) two or three persons will make a purchase?

c) at most two persons will make a purchase?

4. Out of the eight persons entering a supermarket, how many are expected to make a purchase?

5. Compute the standard deviation of the random variable X.