HSS.MD Tutor Intake - Random Variables, Expected Value, and Decisions
This short diagnostic helps your tutor see where to start in the Using-Probability-to-Make-Decisions unit. Every topic here is advanced (STEM-track) material, so a few items assume you have opted into it. Answer each question on your own, without help. If you are unsure, give your best attempt - a wrong answer still tells your tutor what to review.
Concepts
For a family of three children, let be the number of girls. The
expected value is . What does this tell you?
A survey of 200 households records the number of cars per household.
The category "2 cars" occurs 66 times. What probability
should you assign from this empirical data? Give a decimal.
Procedures
Two fair coins are tossed and is the number of heads. Each of the
four outcomes (HH, HT, TH, TT) is equally likely. What is ?
Give a decimal or fraction.
A spinner pays 1, 1, 1, or 10 points on four equally likely regions,
so and . Compute the
expected value .
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