AQA S2 2010 January — Question 2

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2010
SessionJanuary
TopicContinuous Uniform Random Variables
TypeMeasurement error modeling

2 The error, in minutes, made by Paul in estimating the time that he takes to complete a college assignment may be modelled by the random variable \(T\) with probability density function $$f ( t ) = \left\{ \begin{array} { c c } \frac { 1 } { 30 } & - 5 \leqslant t \leqslant 25
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{array} \right.$$
  1. Find:
    1. \(\mathrm { E } ( T )\);
      (1 mark)
    2. \(\quad \operatorname { Var } ( T )\).
  2. Calculate the probability that Paul will make an error of magnitude at least 2 minutes when estimating the time that he takes to complete a given assignment.