CAIE S2 2018 June — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypeSingle-piece PDF with k

7 A random variable \(X\) has probability density function defined by $$f ( x ) = \begin{cases} k \left( \frac { 1 } { x ^ { 2 } } + \frac { 1 } { x ^ { 3 } } \right) & 1 \leqslant x \leqslant 2
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{cases}$$ where \(k\) is a constant.
  1. Show that \(k = \frac { 8 } { 7 }\).
  2. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\).
  3. Three values of \(X\) are chosen at random. Find the probability that one of these values is less than 1.5 and the other two are greater than 1.5.
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