OCR S2 2009 June — Question 7

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicCentral limit theorem

7 The continuous random variable \(X\) has probability density function given by $$f ( x ) = \begin{cases} \frac { 2 } { 9 } x ( 3 - x ) & 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 3 ,
0 & \text { otherwise } . \end{cases}$$
  1. Find the variance of \(X\).
  2. Show that the probability that a single observation of \(X\) lies between 0.0 and 0.5 is \(\frac { 2 } { 27 }\).
  3. 108 observations of \(X\) are obtained. Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that at least 10 of the observations lie between 0.0 and 0.5 .
  4. The mean of 108 observations of \(X\) is denoted by \(\bar { X }\). Write down the approximate distribution of \(\bar { X }\), giving the value(s) of any parameter(s).