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NAME: CURADA, Toni Grace S Date Created: November 28, 2016

At 12:15 AM
SECTION: Grade 11 St. Dominic Professor: Mr. Junlor C. Dacsa I

REFLECTIVE LEARNING JOURNAL

Week 3 (November 21 -25, 2016)

Last week (November 21-25) Sir Dacsa I taught us what is the Mean, the Variance,

Standard Deviation and the formulas of it. Also, he reviews to us what he discussed

last, last week which is on November 14-18. So, based on what Ive learned, probability

distribution is consist of the value of random variable, it has a characteristic which is the

sum of p(x) must equal to 1 (one) not 0.9999 or 0.12. There are two types of presenting

probability distribution which are histogram, and table.

In probability distribution, there are mean, variance, and standard deviation. Mean is

the expected value, the formula of it is = x p(x) wherein is the notation for

finding the mean. Natation is a symbol used to represent the elements in mathematics.

Some examples of notation are which represent summation, while represent the

standard deviation and there is more notation. Variance and standard deviation are also

discrete probability distribution. The formula for the variance is 2 = x2 p(x) - 2

while the formula for the standard deviation is = x2 p(x) - 2. I have one
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example below for the probability distribution that solving for the mean, variance and

standard deviation.

Example: (Count) the number of heads and tails that combined in a tossing three coins.

Step1: List all the possible outcomes

HHT HHH HTT HTH THT THH TTT TTH

Step2: Write the corresponding value of Random Variables

Value of Random Variables (X) P(X)
0 2/8 or 1/4
1 6/8 or 3/4

Step3: Solve for the Mean. Procedures:

Value of Random P(X) X P(X) multiply the
Variables (X) Random
0 2/8 or 1/4 0 Variables (X) to
the Probability of
1 6/8 or 3/4 6/8 or 3/4 X (X P(X)) after
= 3/4 or 0.75 that sum
everything to get
the Mean

Step4: Solve for the Variance and Standard Deviation

Value of Random P(X) X P(X) X2 P(X)
Variables (X)
0 2/8 or 1/4 0 0
1 6/8 or 3/4 6/8 or 3/4 6/8 or 3/4
= 3/4 or 0.75 = 3/4 or 0.75

2 = 0.752 = 0.562 = x2 p(x) - 2 Procedures: First multiply

the X by itself. Second, after
multiplying the X by itself,
multiply it to the P(X). And
lastly, sum up everything.
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2 = x2 p(x) - 2 = 0.1875
2 = 0.75 - 0.5625 = 0.4330
2 = 0.1875

The lesson that I do not understand is the discrete and the continuous. Im confuse to

their definition because I thought the discrete is the continuous, while the continuous is

the discrete because all I know about discrete is you can list or count the number of the

values, in the continuous is you cant list or count the number of the values thats why

when I read some problems I got confuse, because some them are questioning about the

data, measurements, and etc. which is I dont know. Also, sometimes I do not know the

notation that being used to represent that value or the elements in math because some

symbols that being used is just new to me so its unfamiliar for me. So, me as a student I

should not just based on what is written in my notes, what I just heard and what I just

saw, I know we are still lack in knowing things so we are responsible to do advance

reading or scanning notes or do research to increase our knowledge, also to understand

what is the thing that makes us, especially me confuse, and doing advance reading and

researcher can answer the questions that we dont know.

Doing advance research and reading became our habit or we mostly do, I can say

that people who doing that can become an independent person because they doing it even

though they are not being ask to do it in short, they are obedient person.

Before I end my journal, I would like to ask a question regarding to the decimal

places. How many decimal places we should use? I ask this question because I dont

know whether two (2) or four (4) decimal places I should use. If ever we need to use
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both, when we will use the two (2) decimal places and the four (4) decimal places?

Gracelda S. Curada
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