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Prepared by:
Examples:
• Tossing a coin
• Rolling a die
• Randomly picking five cards from an ordinary deck of 52 cards
• Randomly picking a student from a class of 20 students.
Example:
1. Tossing a coin
{Head, Tail}
2. Rolling a die
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
Where:
𝐻 = 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑
𝑇 = 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑙
Example:
EXPERIMENT EXAMPLE OF RANDOM VARIABLE
NOTE: The absolute difference of two numbers 𝑎 & 𝑏 is |𝑎 − 𝑏|. For instance,
the absolute difference of 3 & 5 is 3 − 5 = −2 = 2.