OCR MEI S3 2007 January — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2007
SessionJanuary
TopicCentral limit theorem

1 The continuous random variable \(X\) has probability density function $$f ( x ) = k ( 1 - x ) \quad \text { for } 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 1$$ where \(k\) is a constant.
  1. Show that \(k = 2\). Sketch the graph of the probability density function.
  2. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\) and show that \(\operatorname { Var } ( X ) = \frac { 1 } { 18 }\).
  3. Derive the cumulative distribution function of \(X\). Hence find the probability that \(X\) is greater than the mean.
  4. Verify that the median of \(X\) is \(1 - \frac { 1 } { \sqrt { 2 } }\).
  5. \(\bar { X }\) is the mean of a random sample of 100 observations of \(X\). Write down the approximate distribution of \(\bar { X }\).