OCR Further Statistics 2021 June — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Statistics (Further Statistics)
Year2021
SessionJune
TopicGeometric Distribution
TypeVariance of geometric distribution

4
The random variable \(D\) has the distribution \(\operatorname { Geo } ( p )\). It is given that \(\operatorname { Var } ( D ) = \frac { 40 } { 9 }\).
Determine
  1. \(\operatorname { Var } ( 3 D + 5 )\),
  2. \(\mathrm { E } ( 3 D + 5 )\),
  3. \(\mathrm { P } ( D > \mathrm { E } ( D ) )\).