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M 2 Takehomefà
M 2 Takehomefà
(a) Find the mean and standard deviation of X. Interpret your results.
(b) Find the mean and standard deviation of Y . Interpret your findings.
(c) Find the conditional probability density function for the iron content
given X = 0.55. Find also E(Y | X = 0.55).
(d) Find the correlation coefficient between X and Y .
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3. The weight of a certain type of brick in a manufacturing process has
a mean of 1.12 kg with a standard deviation of 0.03 kg.
(a) Find the mean and standard deviation of the average weight of 25
bricks randomly selected from this manufacturing process.
(b) How many bricks need to be selected so that their average weight has
a standard deviation of no more than 0.005 kg?
4. The joint probability density function for two continuous random vari-
ables X and Y is given by
(x+2y)
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, 0 ≤ x ≤ 2, 0≤y≤2
f (x, y) =
0 otherwise