CAIE S2 2019 November — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2019
SessionNovember
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypeSingle-piece PDF with k

6 A random variable \(X\) has probability density function given by $$\mathrm { f } ( x ) = \begin{cases} k \left( 3 x - x ^ { 2 } \right) & 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 3
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{cases}$$
  1. Show that \(k = \frac { 2 } { 9 }\).
  2. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( 1 \leqslant X \leqslant 2 )\).
  3. Find \(\operatorname { Var } ( X )\).