Statistics for Business

Discrete Distributions

Random Variables and Probability Distributions Activity 3 Solution

a) P (X > 0)
P (X > 0) = 1 P (X = 0)
= 1 0.1
= 0.9

b) P (2 < X 4)
P (2 < X 4) = P (X = 3) + P (X = 4)
= 0.2 + 0.1
= 0.3

c) P (X = 5)

P (X = 5) = 0

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