AQA Further AS Paper 2 Statistics 2018 June — Question 6

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther AS Paper 2 Statistics (Further AS Paper 2 Statistics)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeCalculate Var(X) from probability function

6 The discrete random variable \(Y\) has the probability function $$\mathrm { P } ( Y = y ) = \begin{cases} 2 k y & y = 1,2,3,4
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{cases}$$ where \(k\) is a constant. Show that \(\operatorname { Var } ( 5 Y - 2 ) = 25\)
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