STATISTICS AND

PROBABILITY

RANDOM VARIABLES
Discrete or Continuous
Discrete or Continuous
Variable

Statistics and Probability

 Countable or Measurable
Direction: Identify whether the given situation is countable or
measurable. The students will raise their RIGHT hand if the situation is
COUNTABLE, LEFT hand if it is MEASURABLE.

• Number of students inside the classroom

• Amount of salt needed to cook chicken tinola.
• Number of likes your recent post received.
• Capacity of an auditorium
• Length of the chalkboard
Answer:

COUNTABLE MEASURABLE
Number of the students inside Amount of salt needed to
the classroom cook tinola
Number of likes your recent Capacity of an auditorium
post received
Length of chalkboard
 VARIABLE
• A variable is a characteristics that is observable
or measurable in every unit of the universe.
• Variables can be broadly classified as either
quantitative or qualitative.
• And quantitative can be classified into discrete
and continuous.
 CREATE YOUR GROUP PROFILE
To create a group profile in statistics class, the members of
each team will fill up the following data:

•Name of the students

•Gender
•Age
•Number of siblings
•Daily allowance
•Religion
•Height in cm
•Weight in kg
•Final grade in General Math Subject
Guide Question:
• When do you say that the variable is qualitative?
• When do you say that the is quantitative?
• Among the quantitative variables, which are
discrete? Why?
• Among the quantitative variables, which are
continuous? Why?
Rubrics:
Organization of the data – 15
Creativity – 10
Total: 25
QUANTITATTIVE QUALITATIVE
Age Name of Student
Number of Sblings Gender
Daily Allowance Religion
Height in cm
Weight in kg
Final grade in GeneralMath
DISCRETE CONTINUOUS
Age Height in cm
Number of Siblings Weight in Kg
Daily Allowance Final grade in Gen. Math
• A random variable is a discrete random variable if its set of possible
outcomes is countable.
• A random variable is a continuous random variable if it takes on
values of a continuous scale. Often,continuous random variables
represent measured data, such as height, weights and temperatures.
• The number of covid – 19 patient per hour at Bicol Medical Center.
• The number of patients attributed to covid- 19 in the Philippines.
• The average amount of electricity consumed per household per
month.
• The number of voters who reported for registration.
• The amount of sugar in a cup of coffee.
Discrete Continuous
The number of covid – 19 patient per hour at The average amount of electricity consumed
Bicol Medical Center. per household per month.

The number of patients attributed to covid- 19 The amount of sugar in a cup of coffee.
in the Philippines.

The number of voters who reported for

registration.
Make a survey regarding the use of the cellphone of 5 of your
classmates using the following variables. For each of them, classify the
qualitative and the quantitative. Distinguish a quantitative variable as
to discrete or continuous.
• Number of family members with cellphone
• Type of ownership
• Length(in minute) of longest call made on each cellphone
• Amount paid for cellphone load per month
Generalization
• How do you classify quantitative and qualitative variable?
• How do you distinguish discrete and continuous variable?
EVALUATION
ADVANCED LEARNERS
The number of dropouts in a school for a period of 10
years
The number of defective computers produced by a
manufacturer per year
The number of points scored in a basketball game
The heights of a varsity players in a school in meters
The length of time spent in playing video games in
minutes
AVERAGE LEARNERS
Gender of atheletes for Palarong Bikol
Speed of a car
Number of school days per semester
The number of accidents per year in an intersection
The number of deaths attributed to lung cancer
Reflection
• In life, what are countable treasures? What are measurable
treasures? If you are to choose, which do you prefer to keep,
countable or measurable treasures? why?