Edexcel S2 2012 June — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2012
SessionJune
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypeSymmetry property of PDF

  1. The queueing time, \(X\) minutes, of a customer at a till of a supermarket has probability density function
$$f ( x ) = \left\{ \begin{array} { c c } \frac { 3 } { 32 } x ( k - x ) & 0 \leqslant x \leqslant k
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{array} \right.$$
  1. Show that the value of \(k\) is 4
  2. Write down the value of \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\).
  3. Calculate \(\operatorname { Var } ( X )\).
  4. Find the probability that a randomly chosen customer's queueing time will differ from the mean by at least half a minute.