STATISTICS AND

PROBABILITY
 Prayer
Lord, we thank you a Subtract the worldly
hundredfold desires and evil
for the infinite love and works in our minds
care that you have and hearts and
given us. divide your given
May we, in return, talents to all of us.
multiply it with love To sum it all, may we
and be unite as one in
respect and your family.
add more faith. Amen
 OBJECTIVES:

⮚Illustrate mean and variance

⮚Find the mean and variance of discrete

random variables.
THE MEAN (EXPECTED VALUE)
AND VARIANCE OF A DISCRETE
PROBABILTY DISTRIBUTION
 MEAN OF DISCRETE PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION
 

 
VARIANCE OF DISCRETE PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION

The positive square root of the variance of a

random variable is the standard deviation
 
STEPS IN FINDING THE VARIANCE & SD OF
DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION

 
EXAMPLE 1: Supposed two coins are tossed and
we are interested to determine the number of tails
(T) that will turn up. Find the mean and variance
Possible P(x) x · P(x)    
values
 
0 1/4 0 0 0
 
1 1/2 1/2 1 1/2

2 1/4 1/2 4 1
 
 

   
 
 

Number P(x) x · P(x)  

   
of items
 
1    
3/10 3/10
 
2 1/10 2/10    
 
3 1/10 3/10  
 
 

4 2/10 8/10      

 
5 3/10 15/10  

 
EXAMPLE 3: The number of items sold per day at a retail
store. With its corresponding probabilities, is shown in the
table. Find the variance and standard deviation of the
probability distribution.
Number  
of items P(x)      
 
sold
(x)  
19 0.20
3.8 361 72.2  
20 0.20 80
4 400  
21 0.30
6.3 484 132.3
22  
0.20 4.4 441 96.8
23 0.10
2.3 529 52.9