OCR S1 2013 June — Question 3

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2013
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeCalculate Var(X) from table

3 The probability distribution of a random variable \(X\) is shown.
\(x\)1357
\(\mathrm { P } ( X = x )\)0.40.30.20.1
  1. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\) and \(\operatorname { Var } ( X )\).
  2. Three independent values of \(X\), denoted by \(X _ { 1 } , X _ { 2 }\) and \(X _ { 3 }\), are chosen. Given that \(X _ { 1 } + X _ { 2 } + X _ { 3 } = 19\), write down all the possible sets of values for \(X _ { 1 } , X _ { 2 }\) and \(X _ { 3 }\) and hence find \(\mathrm { P } \left( X _ { 1 } = 7 \right)\).
  3. 11 independent values of \(X\) are chosen. Use an appropriate formula to find the probability that exactly 4 of these values are 5 s .