Understanding Probability Distributions
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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
INTRODUCTION
The probability distributions presented in this activity are widely
used as they describe many everyday situations.
The most complicated part is identifying everyday life phenomena that conform to this.
of behavior.
LOGROS
Distinguish random variables in situations of probability and statistics.
Determine the distribution function of a random variable.
REFLECTION
Do you know what the difference is between discrete mathematics and continuous mathematics?
[Link] experiment consists of tossing a coin three times. Let the random variable be:
X = 'number of faces obtained'. It is requested:
A) Probability distribution of X.
B) Distribution function of X. Graph representation.
C) Mean, variance, and standard deviation of X.
D) Probability of getting at most two heads.
E) Probability of getting at least two heads.
[Link] random variable: X = 'number of children per family in a city' has the following
probability distribution.
X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(X=xI) 0, 47 0.3 0.1 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.01
a) Media or mathematical hope. Meaning
b) Variance and standard deviation
c) If the City Hall pays 2000 pesos per child and Y=2000. X. What is the
probability distribution?
d) Mean, variance, and standard deviation of Y.
3. When tossing four coins, consider the number of shields obtained. From the variable
random Z thus obtained is requested:
a) Probability law. Graphical representation
b) Distribution function. Graphical representation.
c) Mathematical expectation and variance
d) Median and mode of the distribution
e) Probability of getting more than one and less than three shields.
[Link] the mean, variance, and coefficient of variation of the random variable that you have.
as a distribution function:
0 x<2
0.2 2≤ x < 4
F (x) = 0.55 4≤ x < 6
0.85 6≤x<8
1 x≥8
5.30% of a certain town plays on Facebook. Since the contest is called
by phone to 10 randomly chosen people from the village. Calculate the probability that,
among the 10 people, they were watching the program:
More than 8 people
b) Some of the ten people
c) Calculate the mean and standard deviation.
6. The head of human resources at the university conducts a ten-item questionnaire.
to the candidates for a teaching position, having four in each question
possible answers, of which only one is correct. Assuming that the
candidates have the same probability of responding. It is requested to find the
probabilities for the candidate.
a) Count all the questions wrong
b) Ask at least four good questions
c) Answer between four and six questions well.
d) Answer all the questions correctly
e) Answer fewer than three questions correctly.
7. An intelligence test consists of 200 true or false questions. For a
a person who answered at random, calculate the probability of getting it right.
50 questions or less
b) More than 50 questions and less than 100
c) More than 120 questions
8. A website has an average of 7 visits per hour. The following is requested:
probabilities:
a) Visited by a minimum of 6 people
b) More than an hour passes without being visited.
9. The syllabus of an opposition consists of 120 topics and a candidate only knows 40 of them.
They. Two topics are randomly chosen.
a) Calculate the probability that the candidate does not know any.
b) What is the probability of knowing at least one?
In a city, 40% of households are insured against fire.
conduct a survey in the area, an insurance company selects 10 households
at random. It is requested:
a) Number of households expected to be insured.
b) Probability that half of the households are insured.
c) Probability that none are insured.
d) Probability that at least one is insured.
e) Probability that at most three are not insured.
11. 8 people were summoned to a meeting. Each person can attend or not.
regardless of what others do. If the probability of attending
each of them is 0.85, calculate the probability that:
a) They all assist.
b) Assist more than 6.
c) Attend at least half.
12. 85% of the population considers that psychotherapy treatments are expensive.
A random sample consisting of seven individuals is requested:
a) Probability that they all consider them expensive.
b) Probability that none consider it expensive.
c) Probability that at least three consider them expensive.
13. A group of high school friends gathers at Laura's house to eat a
barbecue. In this group, there are 8 women and 6 men. Of the women, 5 study literature.
and the rest are exact, while of the males only one studies humanities and the rest
exact.
a) Si las primeras en llegar a la casa son tres chicas, ¿cuál es la probabilidad de
that they study the same thing?
b) If any three of them make the barbecue, what is the probability that
Do they study the same thing?
c) If two are randomly selected from this group of friends and the variable is defined
random X: number of friends studying humanities among the two chosen, find the
expected value and variance of X.
In a game of truco, assuming that the deck is well shuffled, it
deal a hand of cards.
a) Find the probability that the player who receives the first three cards
have an envido (two cards of the same suit and one different)
b) Find the probability that the first player has a flush (three cards of the same suit)
stick
c) Find the probability that both have a flower
d) Find the probability that the first player has neither a flower nor an envido.
[Link] of every 20 pieces manufactured by a machine, there are 2 that are
defective. To carry out a quality control, 15 are observed.
elements and the batch is rejected if there is any that is defective.
Let's calculate the probability that the batch will be rejected.
16. To avoid being discovered at customs, a traveler has placed 6 tablets of
narcotic in a bottle that contains 9 vitamin pills that are similar in
appearance. If the customs officer randomly selects 3 tablets to
analyze them.
What is the probability that the traveler will be dragged by possession of
narcotics?
Starting from the provided exercises
Identify the random variable
Identify the type of distribution it belongs to
Use the distribution function to calculate the probability.
Remember what you use the nomenclature
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of discrete and continuous random variables.