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SUMMATIVE TEST # 1
CHAPTER I: RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION

NAME: _____________________________ SECTION: ______________ SCORE:______________

LESSON 1: RANDOM VARIABLE (Discrete and Continuous)

1. Illustrate random variable (Discrete or Continuous). (M 11/12 SP IIIa – 1)

2. Distinguish between a discrete and a continuous random variable.(M11/12 SP IIIa – 2)
A. Classify as discrete or continuous random variable.
______________ 1.The speed of a bus+
______________ 2. The number of voters favoring a candidate
______________ 3. The temperature in Sogod at noon time
______________ 4. The number of gold medals won by Sogod NHS delegates in Palarong Pambansa
2019.
______________ 5. The amount of paint used in repainting a building

B. Answer the following (Write your answer at the back of the paper)
Suppose that five cards are drawn from a deck, one at a time, without replacement.
Let X = the number of times a king is drawn from this experiment.
a. What are the possible values of X?

b. Does the experiment represent a discrete or a continuous random variable?

C. Choose the letter of your answer and write in on the blank. Use Capital Letter Only.
___1. Which of the following best describe variable that can be counted?
A. Discrete B. Measured C. Nominal D. Qualitative
___2. Which of the following best describe variable that can be measured?
A. Discrete B. Continuous C. Nominal D. Qualitative
___3. Which of the following is a NOT continuous variable?
A. A person’s weight each year
B. A person’s height on each birthday
C. Number of bicycle finished in a factory each day
D. The amount of water in a pale
___4. Which of the following is NOT a discrete variable?
A. The number of students present in a class
B. The number of death per year attributed to kidney failure
C. The average amount of water consumed per household per month
D. The number of patients in a hospital each day
___5. The number of coconut produced by a coconut tree each month is a continuous variable
A. True B. False C. Maybe D. Cannot be determined
LESSON 2: Possible Values of Random Variable
1. Find the possible values of a random variable. (M11SP IIIa – 3)

Choose the letter of your answer and write in on the blank. Use Capital Letter Only.
___1. If two coins are tossed, which is not a possible value of random variable for the number of tails?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3
___2. Which of the following is a true statement?
A. The value of a random variable could not be zero.
B. Random variables can only have one value.
C. The probability of all the value of a random variable could be Zero.
D. The sum of all the probabilities in a probability distribution is not equal to one.
___3. You decide to conduct a survey of families with two children. You are interested in counting the
number of girls (out of 2 children) in each family. Is this a random variable and if it is, what are the
possible values?
A. Yes, it is a random variable and its value can be 1 or 2.
B. Yes, it is a random variable and its value can be 0, 1 or 2.
C. Yes, it is a random variable and its value can be 2 or 4.
D. No, it is not a random variable since it is not random.
___4. In a local community, couples were asked the questions “Are you satisfied with the work of the
current president?” If the husband and the wife both said “yes”, the response is written as YY. If the
husband said yes and the wife said “no”, the response is YN. Let X = the number of “yes” responses. , what
are the possible values of the random variables?
A. 0, 1, 2 B. 1, 2, 3 C. 2, 3, 4 D. 1, 1
___5. A set of numerical values assigned to a sample space is called
A. Random Experiment C. Random Variable
B. Random Sample D. Random process

LESSON 3: Constructing Probability Distribution

1. Illustrates a probability distribution for a discrete random variable and its properties. (M11/12SP-
IIIa-4)
2. Constructs the probability mass function of a discrete random variable and its corresponding
histogram. (M11/12SP-IIIa-5)
3. Computes probabilities corresponding to a given random variable. (M11/12SP-IIIa-6)
A. Determine whether the distribution represents a probability distribution or NOT. Explain your
answer. SHOW SOLUTIONS

1. X 0 2 3 4 6
P(X) 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/3 1/6

2. X 1 3 5 7
P(X) 0.35 0.25 0.22 0.12

3. P(1)= 10/33, P(2)= 1/3, P(3)= 12/3

 PERFORMANCE TASK
Chapter 1: Lesson 3
PERFORMANCE TASK #1 – Write your answers on a Short/ A4 Bond Paper.
(Do not forget to write your name)

Use the procedure that you have learned to solve the following problems involving probability
distribution of a discrete random variable. SHOW SOLUTIONS

A. Construct the probability distribution for the random variables described in each of the following
situations . Draw the corresponding histogram for each probability distribution.

1. In a National Achievement Test, suppose three test booklets are tested at random. Let D represent the
defective test booklet and let N represent the non-defective test booklet. Let X be the random variable
representing the number of non-defective test booklets.

2. Suppose that a coin is to be tossed four times, and let X represent the number of tails that occur.

3. Using the sample space for rolling two dice, construct a probability distribution for the random variable X
representing the sum of the numbers that appear.

LESSON 4: Illustrating and Calculating Mean and Variance of Discrete Random Variable
1. Illustrates the mean and variance of a discrete Random variable (M11/12SP-IIIb-1)
2. Calculates the mean and the variance of a discrete random variable (M11/12SP-IIIb-2)

PERFORMANCE TASK #2 – Write your answers on a Short/ A4 Bond Paper.

(Do not forget to write your name)

Answer the following problems.

1. The number of shoes sold per day at a retail store is shown in the table below. Find the mean,
variance, and standard deviation of this distribution,
X 19 20 21 22 23
P(X) 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.1

2. Suppose that a coin is to be tossed four times, and let X represents “the number of TAILS that can
come up”. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of this distribution.

3. The number of patients seen in the Emergency Room in any

given hour is a random variable represented by x. The probability X 10 5 12 7 14
distribution for x is:
Compute for the mean, variance and standard deviatio P(X) 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1