Answer to Question #304224 in Statistics and Probability for Luna Heart

Question

Random Variables

Direction: Solve the problem below and complete the table.

Suppose three cellphones are tested at random. We want to find out the number of defective cellphones that occur. Thus, to each outcome in the sample space we shall assign a value.

Let D represent the defective cell phone and N represented the non-defective cell phone. If we let X be the random variable representing the number of defective cell phone, show the values of the random variable X? Complete the table below.

Possible Outcome Value of the Random Variable X

(Number of defective cell phone)

Answer 1

Possible Outcome Value of the Random Variable X: 0. 1. 2. 3