CAIE S2 2002 June — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2002
SessionJune
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypeStandard applied PDF calculations

7 A factory is supplied with grain at the beginning of each week. The weekly demand, \(X\) thousand tonnes, for grain from this factory is a continuous random variable having the probability density function given by $$f ( x ) = \begin{cases} 2 ( 1 - x ) & 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 1
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{cases}$$ Find
  1. the mean value of \(X\),
  2. the variance of \(X\),
  3. the quantity of grain in tonnes that the factory should have in stock at the beginning of a week, in order to be \(98 \%\) certain that the demand in that week will be met.