CAIE S2 2005 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2005
SessionNovember
TopicContinuous Probability Distributions and Random Variables
TypeSingle-piece PDF with k

5 A continuous random variable \(X\) has probability density function given by $$f ( x ) = \begin{cases} a + \frac { 1 } { 3 } x & 1 \leqslant x \leqslant 2
0 & \text { otherwise } \end{cases}$$ where \(a\) is a constant.
  1. Show that the value of \(a\) is \(\frac { 1 } { 2 }\).
  2. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( X > 1.8 )\).
  3. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\).