OCR S3 2007 January — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2007
SessionJanuary
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypeGeometric/graphical PDF with k

2 The continuous random variable \(X\) takes values in the interval \(0 \leqslant x \leqslant 3\) only with probability density function f . The graph of \(y = \mathrm { f } ( x )\) consists of the two line segments shown in the diagram.
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  1. Show that \(a = \frac { 2 } { 3 }\).
  2. Find the equations of the two line segments.
  3. Hence write down the probability density function of \(X\).
  4. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\).