CAIE S2 2003 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2003
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeBasic E(X) and Var(X) calculation

1 A fair coin is tossed 5 times and the number of heads is recorded.
  1. The random variable \(X\) is the number of heads. State the mean and variance of \(X\).
  2. The number of heads is doubled and denoted by the random variable \(Y\). State the mean and variance of \(Y\).