Probability distribution from context

Questions describing a real-world scenario (games, sports, purchases) and asking to derive or work with the implied probability distribution.

1 questions

OCR Further Statistics Specimen Q3
3 A game is played as follows. A fair six-sided dice is thrown once. If the score obtained is even, the amount of money, in \(\pounds\), that the contestant wins is half the score on the dice, otherwise it is twice the score on the dice.
  1. Find the probability distribution of the amount of money won by the contestant.
  2. The contestant pays \(\pounds 5\) for every time the dice is thrown. Find the standard deviation of the loss made by the contestant in 120 throws of the dice.