Week 2

Quarter 3 Module 2

Week 2 Lesson 2
Welcome to our
VARIANCE AND
STANDARD
DEVIATION OF THE
DISCRETE RANDOM
Stat. & Prob.
VARIABLE
Class
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Objectives:

Calculate the Appreciate the

Illustrate the Interprets the Solves problems
variance of a involving variance application of
variance of a variance of a of probability variance
discrete discrete
discrete distributions discrete random
random
random variable random variable in real-
variable variable life.
Variance & SD of a

Discrete

Random Variable
𝜎 2 = ෍ 𝑥 − 𝜇 2 𝑝(𝑥)
𝜎= ෍ 𝑥 − 𝜇 2 𝑝(𝑥)

Variance of a discrete Standard deviation of

random variable a random variable
 Example 1:
The number of cars sold per day at a local car dealership,
Solution:
along with its corresponding probabilities, is shown in the
succeeding table. Compute the variance and standard
deviation of the probability distribution by following the given
steps.
Number of Cars Sold X Probability P(x)

0 10%

1 20%

2 30%

3 20%

4 20%
 Solution:
Steps:
Solution:
1.Find the mean of the probability distribution using
the formula 𝜇 = σ 𝑥𝑃(𝑥)
2. Subtract the mean from each value of the random
variable X
3. Square the results obtained in Step 2
 Steps:
4. Multiply the results obtained in Step 3 by the
Solution:
corresponding probability
5. Get the sum of the results obtained in Step 4. The
result is the value of the variance (𝜎 2 ) . The formula
is: 𝜎 2 =σ 𝑥 − 𝜇 2 𝑃(𝑥)
To solve for Standard Deviation
𝜎= σ 𝑥 − 𝜇 2 𝑃(𝑥)
 No. of car P(x) X P(x)
sold

Solution:
0

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 SW # ___

Solution:
Observe yourself in a day. Find out how
many hours you spend in the following
activities: house chores, answering
homeworks, using social media like
facebook, messenger, tiktok, Instagram,
and Youtube, listening to music,
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watching television, and sleeping.
Record your data. Construct a
probability distribution, then compute the
mean, variance and standard deviation
of the probability distribution that you
made.
Reflection Journal You learned concepts which helped you
accomplished the different tasks successfully.
This time, kindly answer this activity which
would show how important this topic is in
your day-to-day activities.

I learned about 1

These are vey important

2 because

I can use the concept of mean,

variance, and standard deviation of a
discrete random variable in my day
to day activities by
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