Edexcel S2 2016 October — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2016
SessionOctober
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypePDF with multiple constants

4. \begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{4ecee051-3a6f-4c12-8c53-926e8c3e241f-14_451_976_233_484} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Figure 1}
\end{figure} A continuous random variable \(X\) has the probability density function \(\mathrm { f } ( x )\) shown in Figure 1 $$\mathrm { f } ( x ) = \begin{cases} m x & 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 5
k & 5 < x \leqslant 10.5
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{cases}$$ where \(m\) and \(k\) are constants.
    1. Show that \(k = \frac { 1 } { 8 }\)
    2. Find the value of \(m\)
  1. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\)
  2. Find the interquartile range of \(X\)