OCR Further Statistics AS 2021 November — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Statistics AS (Further Statistics AS)
Year2021
SessionNovember
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeCalculate Var(X) from table

1 The discrete random variable \(A\) has the following probability distribution.
\(a\)1251020
\(\mathrm { P } ( A = a )\)0.30.10.10.20.3
  1. Find the value of \(\mathrm { E } ( A )\).
  2. Determine the value of \(\operatorname { Var } ( A )\).
  3. The variable \(A\) represents the value in pence of a coin chosen at random from a pile. Mia picks one coin at random from the pile. She then adds, from a different source, another coin of the same value as the one that she has chosen, and one 50p coin.
    1. Find the mean of the value of the three coins.
    2. Find the variance of the value of the three coins.