Workbook #4

STAT 30100 Online

Instructions: Complete all the problems by yourself and go over with your Cyber mentor.

1. Classify the following random variable according to whether it is discrete or continuous.

(a) The number of cups of coffee sold in a cafeteria during lunch

(b) The height of a player on a basketball team

(c) The blood pressures of a group of students the day before the final exam

(d) The number of goals scored in a soccer game

2. Management at a home improvement store randomly selected 95 customers and observed their
shopping habits. They recorded the number of items each of the customers purchased as well as
the total time the customers spent in the store. Identify the types of variables recorded by the
managers of the home
improvement store.
A) number of items - discrete; total time - continuous
B) number of items - continuous; total time - continuous
C) number of items - continuous; total time - discrete
D) number of items - discrete; total time - discrete
3.

4. Number of assistance programs used simultaneously by families with children in Head Start
programs in Ohio
# of programs (x)

Total

Frequency

P(x)

62

.2088

47

.1582

39

.1313

39

.1313

58

.1953

37

.1246

.0135

11

.0370

297

1.000

Use the above probability table, answer the following questions:

(a) What is the probability that a randomly selected family will be one who used three assistance
programs?

(b) What is the probability that a randomly selected family used either one or two programs?

(c) What is the probability that a family picked at random will be one who used two or fewer
assistance programs?

(d) What is the probability that a randomly selected family will be one who used fewer than four
programs?

(e) What is the probability that a randomly selected family used five or more programs?

(f) What is the probability that a randomly selected family will be one who used between three
and five programs, inclusive?

5. Toss a fair coin three times, and let x equal to the number of heads observed.
(a) Construct a discrete probability distribution table for x.

(b) What is P(x=2 or x=3) ?

(c) What is P(0 < x 2) ?
(d) What is P(0 < x 2)?
6. Consider the given discrete probability distribution.

a) Find the probability that x equals 5.

b) Calculate P( 3< x<6).

c) Find and .

7. Consider the given discrete probability distribution

a) Find P(x>3).
b) Find E(X) and 2

8. Suppose a random variable X is distributed uniformly with c = 5 and d = 25.

(a) What is P(10 x 18) ?

(b) Find mean and standard deviation of X.

9. Suppose X is a random variable best described by a Uniform probability distribution with

c=10 and d=30.
(a) Find f(x).

(b) Find the mean and standard deviation of X.

(c) Find the probabilities of

P ( x 10)
P (10 x 25)
P ( x 25)
P ( x 10)