STATISTICS AND

PROBABILITY
MEAN OF A DISCRETE PROBABIITY
DISTRIBUTION
(EXPECTED VALUE)
PREPARED BY: KIMBERLY GRACE P. TIRO
OBJECTIVES
• AT THE END OF THIS LESSON, YOU SHOULD
BE ABLE TO:
A.RECALL THE CONCEPT OF COMPUTING
THE PROBABILITY OF A RANDOM
VARIABLE
B.ILLUSTRATE AND CALCULATE THE
RECAP!
MEAN
•MEAN OF A DISCRETE
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION- IS
ALSO KNOWN EXPECTED VALUE. THE
EXPECTED VALUE OF A RANDOM VARIABLE
REPRESENTS THE AVERAGE VALUE OF THE
VARIABLE WHEN THE EXPERIMENT IS
REPEATED MANY TIMES.
 FUN FACT
•JOHN KERRICH, A SOUTH
AFRICAN MATHEMATICIAN,
TOSSED A COIN 10,000 TIMES
WHILE HE WAS INTERNED IN A
GERMAN PRISON CAMP. BUT IT
WAS NEVER RECORDED!
HISTOGRAM OF THE PROBABILITY OF THE RANDOM VARIABLE X
(REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF DIAMONDS)
THINKING TIME!
X P(X) X . P(X)

0 4/9 0

1 4/9 4/9

2 1/9 2/9
THINKING TIME!
HISTOGRAM OF THE PROBABILITY OF THE RANDOM VARIABLE
Y (REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF RICE COUPONS)
Values of the
Random Variable
0 1 2
Y
P(X) 9/16 6/16 1/16
Y P(Y) Y . P(Y)

0 9/16 0

1 6/16 6/16

2 1/16 2/16
 PROBLEM AT STAKE

• THE PROBABILITIES THAT A CUSTOMER WILL

BUY 1,2,3,4, OR 5 ITEMS IN A GROCERY STORE
ARE 3/10, 1/10, 1/10, 2/10, AND 3/10
RESPECTIVELY. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE
NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT A CUSTOMER WILL
BUY?
ASSESSMENT