STAT 204-Consider the following discrete probability distribution
Subject: Mathematics   / Statistics
Question
1.Consider the following discrete probability distribution:
XÂ Â Â -1.3Â Â Â 0Â Â Â 2.1Â Â Â 5.4Â Â Â 6.2
P(X)Â Â Â 0.19Â Â Â 0.18Â Â Â 0.15Â Â Â 0.24Â Â Â 0.24
a) What is P(X=0)?
b) What is P(X=0?X<5)?
Round your answer to at least 3 decimal places.
2. Identify each of the following statements as either TRUE or FALSE.
a) (Click for List) False True In a binomial distribution, the random variable X is a count of the number of successes.
b) (Click for List) True False If the probability of success is greater than zero, then the mean of a binomial random variable is greater than the variance.
c) (Click for List) False True The largest value a binomial random variable can be is n + 1.
d) (Click for List) False True In a binomial distribution, each trial can have one of two possible outcomes.
e) (Click for List) True False There are two parameters in a binomial distribution.
3. Consider the following discrete probability distribution:
XÂ Â Â -0.76Â Â Â -0.015Â Â Â 0.71Â Â Â 1.0
P(X)Â Â Â 0.1Â Â Â 0.4Â Â Â 0.3Â Â Â 0.2
a) What is E[X]?
Round your answer to at least 3 decimal places.
b) What is Var[X]?
Round your answer to at least 3 decimal places.
4. Identify each of the following statements as either TRUE or FALSE.
a) (Click for List) True False In a geometric distribution, if the first success occurs on the Xth trial, then on the first X – 1 trials there must have been only a small number of successes.
b) (Click for List) True False If X is a geometric random variable, then the smallest value X can take on is 0.
c) (Click for List) True False The mean of X, a geometric random variable, is 1/p, where p is the probability of success on a single trial.
d) (Click for List) False True If the probability of success in a geometric distribution is greater than 0.5, then the variance is greater than the mean.
e) (Click for List) False True The geometric distribution is dependent upon two parameters.
5. Let X be a discrete random variable that follows a binomial distribution with n = 11 and probability of success p = 0.71.
What is P(X>7?X?9)?
Round your response to at least 3 decimal places.
6. According to the Statistics Canada website, the unemployment rate in Canada is approximately 8.0 % of the eligible workforce. If 25 members of the eligible workforce are randomly selected, what is the probability that exactly 4 of them are unemployed?
Round your response to 3 decimal places.

