OCR H240/02 2019 June — Question 12

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleH240/02 (Pure Mathematics and Statistics)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeSimple algebraic expression for P(X=x)

12 A random variable \(X\) has probability distribution defined as follows. $$\mathrm { P } ( X = x ) = \begin{cases} k x & x = 1,2,3,4,5 ,
0 & \text { otherwise, } \end{cases}$$ where \(k\) is a constant.
  1. Show that \(\mathrm { P } ( X = 3 ) = 0.2\).
  2. Show in a table the values of \(X\) and their probabilities.
  3. Two independent values of \(X\) are chosen, and their total \(T\) is found.
    1. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( T = 7 )\).
    2. Given that \(T = 7\), determine the probability that one of the values of \(X\) is 2 .