CAIE S1 2016 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2016
SessionNovember
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeCalculate E(X) from constructed distribution

2 Two fair six-sided dice with faces numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are thrown and the two scores are noted. The difference between the two scores is defined as follows.
  • If the scores are equal the difference is zero.
  • If the scores are not equal the difference is the larger score minus the smaller score.
Find the expectation of the difference between the two scores.