CAIE S1 2024 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2024
SessionNovember
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeSimple algebraic expression for P(X=x)

2 The random variable \(X\) takes the values \(- 2 , - 1,0,2,3\). It is given that \(\mathrm { P } ( X = x ) = k \left( x ^ { 2 } + 2 \right)\), where \(k\) is a positive constant.
  1. Draw up the probability distribution table for \(X\), giving the probabilities as numerical fractions.
  2. Find the value of \(\operatorname { Var } ( X )\).