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SP Quiz 3 - Problem Solving Involving Mean, Variance, and SD

This document contains a statistics and probability quiz with 5 problems. The problems involve calculating expected value, variance, and standard deviation based on probability distributions and scenarios involving raffle tickets, coin tosses, and gains or losses.

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SP Quiz 3 - Problem Solving Involving Mean, Variance, and SD

This document contains a statistics and probability quiz with 5 problems. The problems involve calculating expected value, variance, and standard deviation based on probability distributions and scenarios involving raffle tickets, coin tosses, and gains or losses.

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Statistics and Probability

QUIZ

Name: Date:
Year/ Section/ Strand:

A. Solve the following problems. (5 pts each)

1. Let X represent the number of times May visits an Internet Café to play
video games in a one-week period. The probability distribution of X is
shown below.
x 0 1 2 3 4
P(x) 0.06 0.18 0.40 0.28 0.08

Find the expected value, variance, and standard deviation of X.

x P(x) xP(x) (x-𝝁) (x-𝝁)𝟐 (x-𝝁)𝟐 P(x)


0 0.06
1 0.18
2 0.40
3 0.28
4 0.08

2. The officers of the Science club are planning to sell 125 tickets to be raffled
during the school’s foundation day. One ticket will win 2,000 pesos and the
other tickets will win nothing. If you will buy one ticket, what will be your
expected gain?

3. Noel tosses an unbiased coin. He receives 100 pesos if a head appears and he
pays 40 pesos if a tail appears. Find the expected value and variance of his
gain.
4.

5. Five hundred tickets will be sold and these will be raffled during the town fiesta.
One of these tickets will win 3000 pesos and the rest will win nothing. What will
be the expected outcome and variance of your gain if you will buy one of the
ticket?

Statistics and Probability


QUIZ

Name: Date:
Year/ Section/ Strand:

A. Solve the following problems. (5 pts each)

1. Let X represent the number of times May visits an Internet Café to play
video games in a one-week period. The probability distribution of X is
shown below.
x 0 1 2 3 4
P(x) 0.06 0.18 0.40 0.28 0.08

Find the expected value, variance, and standard deviation of X.

x P(x) xP(x) (x-𝝁) (x-𝝁)𝟐 (x-𝝁)𝟐 P(x)


0 0.06
1 0.18
2 0.40
3 0.28
4 0.08

2. The officers of the Science club are planning to sell 125 tickets to be raffled
during the school’s foundation day. One ticket will win 2,000 pesos and the
other tickets will win nothing. If you will buy one ticket, what will be your
expected gain?

3. Noel tosses an unbiased coin. He receives 100 pesos if a head appears and he
pays 40 pesos if a tail appears. Find the expected value and variance of his
gain.

4. Five hundred tickets will be sold and these will be raffled during the town fiesta.
One of these tickets will win 3000 pesos and the rest will win nothing. What will
be the expected outcome and variance of your gain if you will buy one of the
ticket?

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