Practice Example Of Pmf (12.4) - Probability Mass Function (PMF) - Mathematics - iii (Differential Calculus)

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Question 1.
What is the PMF for tossing a fair coin?
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Remember the outcomes: Heads and Tails.
Question 2.
How many distinct outcomes are there when rolling a die?
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Think of each side of the die.
3Question 3.
What does PMF stand for?
- Probability Mass Function
- Probability Model Function
- Predictive Mass Function
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Think about its role in representing probabilities.
4Question 4.
A PMF gives probabilities for which type of variables?
- True
- False
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Consider the outcomes it addresses.
Question 5.
A biased coin is flipped, resulting in Heads with a probability of 0.7. What is the PMF for this scenario?
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Use the complement rule for probabilities.
Question 6.
If you roll two fair six-sided dice, what is the PMF for the outcome of the sum of the numbers?
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Think of the individual die outcomes and how to mix them.

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