MEAN, VARIANCE

AND STANDARD
DEVIATION FOR A
PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION
Prepared by: Elena H. Lumanog,
LPT
FORMULA:
MEAN FOR
PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION
Example 1:
A distribution of the
number of students who got
a GPA of 1.50 or higher in
the last 5 semesters and the
corresponding probabilities
is shown below. Find the
mean of the probability
distribution.
Number
of
6 8 10 12 14
Students
(x)

Probabilit
y Pr(x)
Example 2:
A survey conducted on
the number of TV units
per household during the
past 5 years in a first
class subdivision showed
the data below. Find the
mean for the probability
Number
of TV 2 3 4 5 6
units (x)

Probabilit
y Pr(x)
VARIANCE AND STANDARD
DEVIATION
For Variance:

For Standard deviation:

VARIANCE AND STANDARD
DEVIATION
For Standard deviation:

or
Example 1:
A survey conducted to
find the numbers of cars
each household owns in a
particular subdivision. The
results of the survey are
shown below. Find the
mean, variance and
Standard deviation for the
Number of
1 2 3 4
Cars (x)

Probability
Pr(x)
Example 2:
A store selling boxes of
chocolate candies found
that the probabilities of a
customer will buy 0, 1, 2 or
3 boxes of chocolate candies
are shown below. Determine
the mean, variance and
Standard Deviation.
Number of
0 1 2 3
Boxes (x)

Probability
Pr(x)
QUIZ #2
Find the mean, variance and
Standard deviation of the
following problems.
1. The number of suits sold
per today at Suit world is
shown in the probability
distribution below.
 X 19 20 21 22 23

Pr(x)

2. Ms. Bergamini says that the

average number of children
per family in the US is 3. The
following are the distribution
represents the size of
households according to the
 X 2 3 4 5 7

Pr(x)