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This document provides examples to illustrate discrete and continuous random variables: 1) The number of tails from tossing two coins is a discrete random variable, which can only take on the countable values of 0, 1, or 2 tails. 2) The number of heads from tossing four coins is also a discrete random variable, which can be 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 heads. 3) The sum of the dots on two rolled dice is a discrete random variable that can take on the values 2 through 12 in integer increments, as the possible outcomes are countable.

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This document provides examples to illustrate discrete and continuous random variables: 1) The number of tails from tossing two coins is a discrete random variable, which can only take on the countable values of 0, 1, or 2 tails. 2) The number of heads from tossing four coins is also a discrete random variable, which can be 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 heads. 3) The sum of the dots on two rolled dice is a discrete random variable that can take on the values 2 through 12 in integer increments, as the possible outcomes are countable.

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ILLUSTRATING RANDOM VARIABLES 1.

Suppose two coins are tossed and we


AND DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN A are interested to determine the
DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS number of tails that will come out.

OUTCOME NO. OF TAILS


EXPERIMENT – any movement that should TH 1
HT 1
be possible more than once under
TT 2
comparative condition.
HH 0
SAMPLE SPACE – the arrangement of every
possible outcome of an experiment
2. Four coins are tossed. (H represents
RANDOM – chosen, done without a HEAD)
particular plan or pattern
OUTCOME NO. OF HEADS
VARIABLE – a quantity that can have any HHHH 4
one of a set of values or a symbol that HTHH 3
represents such a quantity HHTH 3
HHHT 3
RANDOM VARIABLE – is a result of chance TTTT 0
event that you can measure or count THHH 3
*use capital letters to represent random TTHH 2
variable TTTH 1
HTTT 1
Types of Random Variable HHTT 2
THTH 2
1. DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLE
HTHT 2
 A random variable which can
THHT 2
only view a countable amount of
THTT 1
values TTHT 1
 Has either a finite or a countable HTTH 2
number of possible values
2. CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLE 3. A pair of dice is rolled. X represents
 A random variable that takes an the sum of number of dots on top
interminably uncountable faces.
number of potential values, 1) S= {(1,1),(1,2),(1,3),(1,4),(1,5),(1,6)
regularly measurable amounts. (2,1),(2,2),(2,3),(2,4),(2,5),(2,6)
 Values are obtained by (3,1),(3,2),(3,3),(3,4),(3,5),(3,6)
measuring (4,1),(4,2),(4,3),(4,4),(4,5),(4,6)
POSSIBLE VALUES OF RANDOM VARIABLES (5,1),(5,2),(5,3),(5,4),(5,5),(5,6)
(6,1),(6,2),(6,3),(6,4),(6,5),(6,6)}
The following are some examples:
2)

OUTCOMES SUM
(1,1) 2
(1,2) (2,1) 3
(1,3) (3,1) (2,2) 4
(4,1) (3,2) (2,3) (1,4) 5
(5,1) (2,4) (3,3) (2,4) (1,5) 6
(6,1) (5,2) (4,3) (3,4) (2,5) (1,6) 7
(6,2) (5,3) (4,4) (3,5) (2,6) 8
(6,3) (5,4) (4,5) (3,6) 9
(6,4) (5,5) (4,6) 10
(6,5) (5,6) 11
(6,6) 12

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