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A fair coin has been tossed four times. Let X be the number of heads minus...

A fair coin has been tossed four times. Let X be the number of heads minus the number of tails (out of four tosses). Find the probability mass function of X. Sketch the graph of the probability mass function and the distribution function, Find E[X] and Var(X).

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