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> A private investor has capital of £16,000. He divides this into eight
>  units of £2,000, each of which he invests in a separate one-year
>  investment. Each of these investments has three possible outcomes at
>  the end of the year:
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> 1. total loss of capital probability 0.1
> 2. capital payment of £2,000 probability 0.7
> 3. capital payment of £5,000 probability 0.2
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> > The investments behave independently of one another, and there is no
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> return from them.
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> > Calculate the expected payment received by the investor at the end of
> >  the year.
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I am unable to figure out how to create a probability distribution from the given data.

If I could create it,then I think I can calculate it just applying the formula.