Trident Mat201 SLP 2

Probability Theory

Within this paper I was discuss variables and probabilities over a ten day period. I will use information learned in Module 1 to formulate my data. Statics and probability will be on the number of emails I receive over the mentioned 10 day time period. The tables below list the number of emails I received over the 10 day time period.

Day	# of E-Mails
1	10
2	15
3	22
4	18
5	13
6	10
7	23
8	20
9	11
10	14

Using this information I will calculate the average, median, and mode. The average is calculated by taking the total number of emails and dividing by the total number of days.

Total # of emails = 156 Total # of days = 10 Average = 156/10 = 15.6

Median is found by choosing the middle number in the experiment. There are two numbers in this set so I will get the average of the two. The two middle numbers are 13 and 14.

13 + 14 = 27/2 = 13.5 This tells me that the median number of emails is 13.5.

Next is the mode. The mode is simply which ever number occur the most. From the experiment we see that 10 is the only repeating number. It repeats twice. Therefore, 10 is the mode.

This is a good method to use when one wants to get statistical measures on any task. I never really thought about statics on personal task until this assignment. I’m sure I can use this in work assignments as well. I believe that the average or mean is the best measure to get basic variables of any situation.