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Exercises: Develop an Empirical Probability Distribution and Find Its Expected Value

Work through each section in order. To turn a frequency table into a probability distribution, estimate each probability as a RELATIVE FREQUENCY: count divided by total (or percent divided by 100). Every probability must be between 0 and 1, and they should sum to about 1. Compute the expected value as $E(X) = \sum x \cdot P(X = x)$, and scale to a population total with $n \cdot E(X)$. State any modeling choice you make for an open-ended category. Round as directed.

Grade 11·23 problems·~38 min·Common Core Math - HS Statistics and Probability·group·hss-md-a-4
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Fluency Practice

Build distributions, check the sum, and compute expected values.

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An empirical distribution for the number of pets per household is:

Pets0123
Probability0.200.350.300.15

Add the probabilities. What is the sum?