CAIE S1 2022 June — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2022
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeSimple algebraic expression for P(X=x)

3 The random variable \(X\) takes the values \(- 2,1,2,3\). It is given that \(\mathrm { P } ( X = x ) = k x ^ { 2 }\), where \(k\) is a constant.
  1. Draw up the probability distribution table for \(X\), giving the probabilities as numerical fractions.
  2. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\) and \(\operatorname { Var } ( X )\).