CAIE S2 2013 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2013
SessionJune
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypeFind median or percentiles

6 The time in minutes taken by people to read a certain booklet is modelled by the random variable \(T\) with probability density function given by $$f ( t ) = \begin{cases} \frac { 1 } { 2 \sqrt { } t } & 4 \leqslant t \leqslant 9
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{cases}$$
  1. Find the time within which \(90 \%\) of people finish reading the booklet.
  2. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( T )\) and \(\operatorname { Var } ( T )\).